drummed
- 1Simple past and past participle of drum.
He drummed a steady beat on the hollow wooden box.
The coach had drummed the same lesson into the team for weeks.
Note
One spelling does double duty. In he drummed on the table it is the simple past; in the rule had been drummed into them it is a passive participle. Note the doubled m before -ed, as with other short words ending in one consonant after a short vowel. Because drum can be transitive or intransitive, both patterns are common, and the canvassing sense keeps its for: they drummed for recruits.
Agents drummed for customers up and down the high street.
The safety rules were drummed into every new recruit.
drummed is a form of drum
drum, verb: To play a drum by striking it, especially in steady rhythm. Full entry
- Spelling
- drum → drummed: double the m, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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