collapsed
- 1Simple past and past participle of collapse.
The bridge collapsed under the weight of the loaded trucks.
The company had collapsed before its investors saw any warning signs.
Note
Because collapse is mostly intransitive, its participle usually pairs with have: the roof had collapsed, the talks have collapsed. A passive with be needs one of the transitive meanings, such as scaffolding collapsed by a demolition crew or an outline entry collapsed to hide its subentries. Elsewhere, was collapsed describes a resulting state rather than an action: by morning the tent was collapsed and packed away.
collapsed is a form of collapse
collapse, verb: To break apart and fall down suddenly, as a structure giving way; to cave in. Full entry
- Forms
- collapsecollapses he/she/itcollapsing -ing formcollapsed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- collapse → collapsed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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