championed
- 1Simple past and past participle of champion.
He championed civil rights long before the cause became popular.
The foundation has championed clean water access across the region.
Note
A regular -ed form that does double duty: simple past in she championed reform, past participle after has and in the passive, where the cause becomes the subject (the bill was championed by reformers). The verb is transitive, so the cause must be named. Its sense matches the noun for someone who fights on another's behalf. An older, now obsolete use meant simply "to challenge," so championed once signaled defiance rather than support.
championed is a form of champion
champion, verb: To publicly promote, support, and fight for a cause, person, or idea. Full entry
- Forms
- championchampions he/she/itchampioning -ing formchampioned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- champion → championed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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