ballooned
Saybuh-LOOND/bəˈlund/
- 1Simple past and past participle of balloon.
The project's budget ballooned far beyond the original estimate.
Membership has ballooned since the club lowered its fees.
Note
A regular past form: one spelling covers both the simple past and the participle, so costs ballooned and costs have ballooned use the same word. The auxiliary depends on the meaning. Swelling or expanding rapidly takes no object, so it pairs with have and never forms a passive. The transitive uses, inflating something or striking a ball high into the air, can: the ball was ballooned over the fence.
ballooned is a form of balloon
balloon, verb: To increase or expand rapidly in size, amount, or extent. Full entry
- Forms
- balloonballoons he/she/itballooning -ing formballooned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- balloon → ballooned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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