danced
- 1Simple past and past participle of dance.
The couple danced gracefully across the polished floor.
She had danced for years before a knee injury ended her career.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the simple past (they danced all night) and the participle after have (she had danced for years). Because dance can also be transitive, meaning to perform the steps of a dance or to make someone dance, the participle forms passives too: a tango was danced, a child was danced on a knee. The intransitive sense, simply moving to music, has no passive.
The final tango was danced by the two principals.
The baby was danced on his grandmother's knee until he laughed.
danced is a form of dance
dance, verb: To move rhythmically with steps, usually to music, or to perform a particular dance such as a waltz. Full entry
- Spelling
- dance → danced: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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