dinged
- 1Simple past and past participle of ding.
The falling wrench dinged the workbench and left a small mark.
Critics dinged the film for its sluggish middle act.
Note
One spelling serves as both the past tense and the past participle, so the passive comes easily: the fender got dinged in the parking lot. The colloquial uses (firing, rejecting, docking points) usually take a for-phrase naming the fault, as in dinged for lateness. The same spelling is also the past of the older verb dinge. Its striking and bruising senses lie close to these, so context rarely tells the two apart.
- 2SayDINJD/dɪnd͡ʒd/Simple past and past participle of dinge.
Note
Behind this form is dinge, a verb of beating and bruising that once carried a penitential meaning: to flog, as in penance. Its sense of indenting or knocking in comes closest to the past of ding, and a dented surface could be described with either word. The noun dinge is another matter. It is dated US slang for a Black person, so the bare word needs care.
dinged is a form of ding
ding, verb: To make a high, ringing sound similar to that of a bell. Full entry
- Spelling
- ding → dinged: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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