exchanged
- 1Simple past and past participle of exchange.
The two leaders exchanged warm greetings before the talks began.
She exchanged the faulty toaster for a working one at the store.
Note
One spelling does both jobs: it stands alone as the past tense (they exchanged greetings) and follows have or be in perfect and passive forms (the goods were exchanged). When it means swapping one thing in for another, it takes for: exchanged the shirt for a larger size. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland it can also appear with no object at all, as in we exchanged last week, short for exchanged contracts.
exchanged is a form of exchange
exchange, verb: Of two or more people, to give each other things of the same kind, such as glances, words, blows, ideas, or advice. Full entry
- Forms
- exchangeexchanges he/she/itexchanging -ing formexchanged past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- exchange → exchanged: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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