copied
SayKO-peed/ˈkɑpid/UK/ˈkɒpid/
- 1Simple past and past participle of copy.
The student copied the entire paragraph by hand before the deadline.
He copied the files to a backup drive last night.
Note
The y of copy turns to i before the ending, as in carry, carried and study, studied, so the form is never spelled copyed. Most uses take a thing as the object: a text, a file, a style. The object can also be the person who receives a copy, as in she copied me on the memo, and in the passive that becomes I was copied on it.
copied is a form of copy
copy, verb: To produce an object that is identical to a given one. Full entry
- Spelling
- copy → copied: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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