shielded

English

Verb

shielded

1. simple past and past participle of shield

Adjective

shielded (comparative more shielded, superlative most shielded)

1. Provided with, or possessing, a shield.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 433:

     The curious horned flies have already been mentioned; and among the Orthoptera the great shielded grasshoppers are the most remarkable.

2. Protected by a shield.
3. Protected from influence or danger.

Derived terms

• deshielded
• nonshielded
• shielded arc welding
• shielded cable
• shielded joint
• shielded line
• shieldedly
• shielded pair
• shielded room
• shielded twisted pair
• unshielded

Translations

provided with a shield

• Dutch: geblindeerd (nl)
• Italian: schermato (it)
• Latin: leucaspis m (lit. "armed with a white shield")
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjermet

• Spanish: blindado (es), escudado (es)
• Zulu: avikeleka

protected

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjermet