chaired
- 1Simple past and past participle of chair.
The senator chaired the committee through a long and difficult session.
The annual conference was chaired by a respected scientist.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does double duty here. It is the simple past in she chaired the panel and the past participle in the panel was chaired by her or she has chaired it twice. The form also carries the verb's rarer meanings. A captain can be chaired off the field on teammates' shoulders, and in Wales a winning poet is chaired at the eisteddfod, honored with the chair itself.
After the final whistle, the captain was chaired off the field by her teammates.
The young poet was chaired at the National Eisteddfod for her ode.
chaired is a form of chair
chair, verb: To act as the chairperson of a meeting or gathering; to preside over the proceedings. Full entry
- Spelling
- chair → chaired: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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