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beefed

SayBEEFTUS/bift/UK/biːft/

2 meanings of beefed

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  1. 1
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of beef.

    Customers beefed about the sudden price increase at the counter.

    Workers have beefed about the long shifts for years.

    Note

    A regular form doing double duty: one spelling serves as the simple past (they beefed about the shifts) and as the participle after have (they have beefed for years). Which beef it carries depends on the construction. Without an object it means complaining, crying in Yorkshire, or feuding in Multicultural London English. With an object it means strengthened or, in slang, messed up. Only these transitive meanings allow a passive: the plan was beefed.

Less common meaning

  1. 2
    adjective
    Consisting of beef of the specified kind.

beefed is a form of beef

beef, verb: To add weight or strength to something; to make it more substantial or powerful. Full entry

Forms
beefbeefs he/she/itbeefing -ing formbeefed past tense, past participle
Spelling
beef → beefed: add -ed
Sound
The ending sounds like /t/.

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