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The correct spelling is spidered.

How to pronounce spidered

verb

Say it like: Spi-der-ed

The correct spelling is spidered. To move like a spider. For example: "The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines."

Usage Examples

The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.

Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona noon. David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, pp. 3, 1st Paperback Ed.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To move like a spider.
  2. 2.To cover a surface like a cobweb.
  3. 3.(of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

adjective

  1. 1.Infested by spiders; covered in cobwebs

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