criticized
UK spellingcriticised
- 1Simple past and past participle of criticize.
The committee criticized the proposal for ignoring local concerns.
Several reviewers have criticized the novel's slow opening.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the simple past (the committee criticized the plan) and the participle after have or be (the plan was criticized). It carries both meanings of the verb, so context decides whether a novel was criticized by being faulted or by being weighed on its merits. It can also stand without an object (she rarely criticized), and the -ize spelling is both the US form and the Oxford British one.
criticized is a form of criticize
criticize, verb: To point out the faults or problems in someone or something. Full entry
- Forms
- criticizecriticizes he/she/itcriticizing -ing formcriticized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- criticize → criticized: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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