bucketed
SayBUK-it-id/ˈbʌkɪtɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of bucket.
The researchers bucketed the survey responses into five broad categories.
The fish had already been bucketed and iced by the time the buyers arrived.
Note
The t stays single before -ed because bucket is stressed on its first syllable, as with rocketed and picketed. Which meanings can turn passive depends on the object: a catch can be bucketed, and in Australian slang so can a film or a coach, but the informal rain and speed uses take no object and have no passive: it bucketed all night, we bucketed along.
bucketed is a form of bucket
bucket, verb: To rain heavily. Full entry
- Spelling
- bucket → bucketed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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