gravelled
Surfaced with pebbles
Gravelled is the past tense of gravel, meaning covered with small stones: a gravelled driveway, the gravelled path crunched underfoot.
In older or literary usage, to be gravelled means to be perplexed or stuck—unable to proceed, as if mired in loose stones: He was gravelled by the question.
The spelling with double L is British; Americans write graveled.
Utterly unable to understand
- perplexedThoroughly confused, uncertain
- bewilderedThoroughly puzzled and confused
- stumpedUnable to solve
- flummoxedUtterly perplexed
nonplussed · puzzled · mystified · befuddled · dumbfounded · disconcerted · flustered · vexed
baffled
Utterly unable to understand
- perplexedThoroughly confused, uncertain
- bewilderedThoroughly puzzled and confused
- stumpedUnable to solve
flummoxed · nonplussed · puzzled · mystified · befuddled · dumbfounded · disconcerted · flustered · vexed · troubled
pebbled
Having small-stone texture
unpaved · dirt · limestone · driveway · pathway · courtyard · lane · track · crunching · dusty
- gravelly voiceRough, low-pitched tone