apologized
UK spellingapologised
- 1Simple past and past participle of apologize.
The mayor apologized publicly for the errors in the budget.
Once they had apologized to each other, the two friends made up.
Note
One spelling does double duty: simple past (she apologized yesterday) and past participle after have or had (she had apologized by then). The verb is intransitive, so it never takes a direct object. The person wronged comes in with to and the fault with for: you apologize to someone for something. The -ize spelling is both the US and the Oxford British form. An older use, meaning to argue in someone's defense, is now dated.
apologized is a form of apologize
apologize, verb: To acknowledge a fault or offense and express regret for it, often as a way of making amends. Full entry
- Forms
- apologizeapologizes he/she/itapologizing -ing formapologized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- apologize → apologized: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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