[Grammar] Furred up

[Rollercoaster1]

Hello everyone,
I was looking up some words on a dictionary called "wordWeb", and found something which was a bit confusing for me to comprehend. The words used in two sentences, on WordWeb, which I am going to type below, as verbs. Please clarify how these words are functioning in the following sentences.

1- Facts about smoking and furred-up arteries.
2- The boiler has become furred up.

Is the word "furred-up", in the above first sentence, not functioning as an adjective telling us about facts or arteries?
The above second sentence is clearly telling us about boiler, that something happened to it. (Politely)Why, is it not functioning as an adjective if I am correct?

Regards!

 

[MikeNewYork]

In both sentences, it is an adjective. In the first, it is attributive and describes "arteries". In the second it is a predicate adjective which modifies "boiler".

 

[Rollercoaster1]

But how come, it's described as verb in both sentences on "wordWeb" dictionary?

 

[Rover_KE]

But how come [no comma here] it's described as a verb in both sentences in "WordWeb" dictionary?

We'd have to see the entire entry for the word being defined. Can you provide a link to it?

 

[Rollercoaster1]

sure. Here is the link.
http://www.wordwebonline.com/search.pl?w=fur

 

[Rover_KE]

Past and present participles of verbs are commonly used adjectivally.

 

[bhaisahab]

That entry is wrong.

 

[MikeNewYork]

"Furred", as a participle, is derived from verb. That doesn't make it a verb.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

So, how is it functioning, as an adjective or as a verb?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Read the thread.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

Whose thread?

 

[bhaisahab]

MikeNewYork's post, #2.