adopted
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of adopt.
The council adopted the budget after weeks of negotiation.
Many of the customs they follow were adopted from neighboring regions.
Note
A regular -ed form that does double duty. On its own it is the simple past (they adopted a rescue dog), and after have or be it builds the perfect and the passive (she had adopted; he was adopted as a baby). Because adopt always takes an object, the passive comes easily. It is the natural way to speak from the child's side rather than the parents': the child was adopted.
He was adopted as a baby and only met his birth mother at thirty.
By then the couple had already adopted two dogs from the local shelter.
adopted is a form of adopt
adopt, verb: To take another's child into your family by choice and raise the child as your own. Full entry
- Spelling
- adopt → adopted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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