borrowed
- 1Simple past and past participle of borrow.
The city borrowed heavily against future tax revenue to fund the new bridge.
Many everyday English words were borrowed from French after the Norman conquest.
Note
A regular past form, so one spelling covers she borrowed, she has borrowed and it was borrowed. The participle also works as an adjective before a noun: in Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1606) the hero asks why he is dressed "in borrowed robes," a title that still belongs to a living man. Where borrow means "lend," as in Malaysia, Singapore and the West Midlands, a sentence like she borrowed me a pen is proscribed.
borrowed is a form of borrow
borrow, verb: To receive something from another person temporarily, intending to return it. Full entry
- Spelling
- borrow → borrowed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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