ashed
SayASHT/æʃt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of ash.
The smoker ashed his cigarette absentmindedly onto the porch step.
Each sample was ashed in the furnace before the minerals could be weighed.
Note
One regular -ed spelling serves as both simple past and past participle, so have or be does the work of telling them apart: she ashed her cigarette, the samples have been ashed. Most of its uses can drop the object (he ashed into the saucer), but the Ash Wednesday use always takes a person: the congregation was ashed at the morning service. Ashing newly sown fields survives only as an obsolete farming use.
ashed is a form of ash
ash, verb: To knock the burned end off a lit cigarette or cigar. Full entry
- Spelling
- ash → ashed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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