changed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of change.

   The small town changed beyond recognition over three decades.

   He has changed jobs three times this year alone.

   Note

   Change works in both directions (the town changed, or developers changed the town), so this one form serves two kinds of sentence. The intransitive uses take have in the perfect: she has changed, he had changed at the next station. Only the transitive uses form a true passive: the tire was changed, the baby has been changed. Placed before a noun, the form becomes the adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Made different in some way from a previous state, form, or condition.

   She came back from the war a changed woman, quieter and more careful.

   The changed climate of the valley supported crops that once failed there.

   Similaraltered, different, transformed

   Oppositeunaltered

   Note

   Here the participle has settled into a true adjective, and it behaves like one: it grades, so someone can be more changed than before, or the most changed of a group. It is at home before a noun about a person or their circumstances, as in the set phrase a changed man, where the change is to who someone is, not to a detail. After be, it can blur into the verb's passive.

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