donated

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of donate.

   The company donated thousands of dollars to disaster relief.

   Several paintings were donated to the museum last spring.

   Note

   One spelling covers both jobs here: the simple past (they donated last year) and, after have or a form of be, the perfect and the passive (had donated, was donated). Because donate works with or without an object, she donated generously is as complete as she donated a kidney, though only the object-taking use can turn passive. Placed before a noun, as in donated blood, it becomes the adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Supplied as a voluntary gift, with nothing paid for it.

   The clinic relied on donated blood throughout the shortage.

   Volunteers spent the weekend sorting through piles of donated furniture.

   Similargifted, given

   Oppositebought

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