1. Simple past tense and past participle of mat

matted

1. forming a thick tangled mess
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524 ↗, part I:

     The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple {{...}

2. covered with mat#English|mats or matting

• Italian: aggrovigliato, arruffato, ingarbugliato, infeltrito
• Russian: спутанный

• Italian: coperto di stuoie, fatto a stuoia