roofed
v.v. to cover the top of a building or structure with a roof. You use this when you are finishing a house or building a shelter.
v. to provide a roof for a structure or to cover the top of an object. Often used in the passive voice to describe the completion of a building project.
They finished roofed the new barn last week.
The community came together to roofed the temporary shelter before the heavy rain arrived.
Once the main frame was complete, the workers spent three days roofed the entire facility with durable metal sheets to withstand the local climate.
From Middle English rofed derived from the noun, replaced earlier Old English hrēfed attested in unoferhrēfed (“unoverroofed”), equivalent to roof + -ed.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated May 27, 2026