courtesied
SayKUR-tuh-seedUS/ˈkɝɾəsid/UK/ˈkɜːtəsid/
- 1Simple past and past participle of courtesy.
The young dancer courtesied as the audience rose to applaud.
Having courtesied to her host, she made her way toward the garden.
Note
Another spelling of curtsied, built on courtesy. As a noun, courtesy names both polite behavior and the curtsy that expresses it, but the verb keeps only the gesture. She courtesied to her host means she dipped in a curtsy, not that she treated her host kindly. Like other verbs ending in a consonant plus -y, it turns the y into -ied, and one form serves as both past tense and participle.
courtesied is a form of courtesy
- Forms
- courtesycourtesies he/she/itcourtesying -ing formcourtesied past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- courtesy → courtesied: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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