coupled
- 1Simple past and past participle of couple.
Engineers coupled the locomotive to the freight cars before departure.
Rising costs, coupled with falling demand, forced the factory to close.
Note
One spelling does double duty as past tense and past participle, so they coupled the cars and the cars were coupled look alike. The participle carries every use of the verb: joining one thing to another, the dated sense of marrying, bringing animals together for mating, and the racing practice of entering one owner's horses under a single bet. As a connective, coupled with links one circumstance to another, not a physical joint.
coupled is a form of couple
couple, verb: To link two things, or attach one thing to another. Full entry
- Spelling
- couple → coupled: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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