bracketed
SayBRAK-it-id/ˈbɹækɪtɪd/
- 1Past tense and past participle of bracket. Use this form for something that already happened.
She bracketed the words she wanted to remove later.
The players were bracketed into two even teams.
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- 2Put inside brackets in a piece of writing.
Like words put inside a box so you know they are extra.
The bracketed phrase explains a word most readers won't know.
Anything bracketed in the contract is optional.
Similarparenthetical, parenthesized
- 3Having brackets inside it.
Like a sentence that has small marks holding some words together.
The bracketed expression needs careful order of operations.
A bracketed list groups its items with these marks.
Similarparenthesized
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bracketed is a form of bracket
bracket, verb: To group people or things together as being the same kind. Full entry
- Forms
- bracketbrackets he/she/itbracketing -ing formbracketed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- bracket → bracketed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
Use it in a sentence
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