encountered
- 1Simple past and past participle of encounter.
The explorers encountered dense fog as they climbed higher into the mountains.
Researchers have encountered similar patterns in several earlier studies.
Note
A regular -ed form doing two jobs: the plain past (we encountered fog) and the participle after have or had (we had encountered fog). Because the verb is usually transitive, it also builds a passive: problems encountered early, a pattern often encountered. In India the verb has a euphemistic use for an extrajudicial killing, so a sentence like "the suspect was encountered" reads there as a killing, not a meeting.
encountered is a form of encounter
encounter, verb: To meet someone or come across something, especially without expecting to. Full entry
- Forms
- encounterencounters he/she/itencountering -ing formencountered past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- encounter → encountered: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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