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lapped

adjective C2
  1. Being one or more complete laps behind the leader in a race. · He had to pass the lapped cars on the racetrack.
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As I looked at the deep-set windows and the long sweep of the dull-coloured, water-lapped front, I felt that no more fitting scene could be set for such a tragedy.
The Valley of Fear, p. 39 · C1
Kaa was not a poison snake--in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards--but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
The Jungle Book, p. 42 · B2

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