assessed
- 1Simple past and past participle of assess.
The committee assessed the proposal carefully before approving the funds.
Property values were assessed at higher rates across the county this year.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. As a past tense it is the finite verb: the committee assessed the proposal. As a participle it builds perfects with have and, very often, passives with be. Because assess is transitive, the passive comes naturally: a property is assessed at a value, a penalty is assessed, a tax is assessed. All three meanings carry over unchanged: judging worth, imposing a charge or punishment, and levying tax.
assessed is a form of assess
assess, verb: To determine or estimate the value, quality, or significance of something. Full entry
- Spelling
- assess → assessed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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