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IPA: /ˈpaʊ ərd/

Powered is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in powered (deeoprw).

Definitions for powered

noun

1. ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
2. political or national strength:
3. great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force.
4. the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy:
5. political ascendancy or control in the government of a country, state, etc.:
6. legal ability, capacity, or authority:
7. delegated authority; authority granted to a person or persons in a particular office or capacity:
8. a document or written statement conferring legal authority.
9. a person or thing that possesses or exercises authority or influence.
10. a state or nation having international authority or influence:
11. a military or naval force:
12. Often, powers. a deity; divinity:
13. powers, Theology. an order of angels. Compare angel (def 1).
14. Dialect. a large number or amount:
15. Physics. work done or energy transferred per unit of time. Symbol: P. the time rate of doing work.
16. mechanical energy as distinguished from hand labor:
17. a particular form of mechanical or physical energy:
18. energy, force, or momentum:
19. Mathematics. the product obtained by multiplying a quantity by itself one or more times: (of a number x) a number whose logarithm is a times the logarithm of x (and is called the a th power of x). Symbolically, y = xa is a number that satisfies the equation log y = a log x. the exponent of an expression, as a in xa. cardinal number (def 2).
20. Optics. the magnifying capacity of a microscope, telescope, etc., expressed as the ratio of the diameter of the image to the diameter of the object. Compare magnification (def 2). the reciprocal of the focal length of a lens.

Idioms

1. the powers that be, those in supreme command; the authorities:

adjective

1. (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover:
2. operated or driven by a motor or electricity:
3. power-assisted:
4. conducting electricity:
5. Informal. expressing or exerting power; involving or characteristic of those having authority or influence, as in power lunch; power couple; power suit.

Verb phrases

1. power down, Computers. to shut off.
2. power up, Computers. to turn on.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply with electricity or other means of power:
2. to give power to; make powerful:
3. to inspire; spur; sustain:
4. (of a fuel, engine, or any source able to do work) to supply force to operate (a machine):
5. to drive or push by applying power:

Origin of powered

First recorded in 1875-80; power + -ed²

Examples for powered

That meant it was powered from the central power plant, wherever that was.

The best is flint sand, or the powered quartz sold for filters.

For Edison, electricity was the fuel that powered a series of innovations.

He was duped into silly offensive fouls when smaller men moved in behind him as he powered toward the basket.

Ours are powered like that, but we cannot operate them when the Venerian wind is blowing.

The Ardan missiles were powered for an acceleration of one hundred gravities.

But they are being built with new, lighter materials and powered with far more efficient engines.

Each was powered by one of the engines, transmitted to it by heavy rubber belts.

She led a reliably epic and wild life, powered by a brand of comedy that regarded nothing as beyond the pale.

Despite sustaining the injury in the 85th minute, he powered through, tending goal until the final whistle.