exploited
- 1Simple past and past participle of exploit.
Colonial powers exploited the region's natural resources for centuries.
The software flaw was exploited before engineers could release a fix.
Note
One spelling does double duty. Alone, it is the simple past (they exploited the flaw). With have or be, it builds the perfect and the passive (the flaw has been exploited). The verb behind it has two moods: putting something to good advantage, and making unfair use of someone's labor or person. Context decides which one you hear. Resources exploited sounds practical; workers exploited is an accusation.
exploited is a form of exploit
exploit, verb: To make unfair use of another person's labor, body, or property for one's own gain. Full entry
- Forms
- exploitexploits he/she/itexploiting -ing formexploited past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- exploit → exploited: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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