filmed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of film.

   The crew filmed the entire ceremony from three angles.

   Several scenes were filmed on location in Morocco.

   Note

   One regular -ed form covers two jobs: the crew filmed the ceremony (simple past), and the scenes were filmed in Morocco (passive participle). The camera meaning works with or without an object, so a crew can simply have filmed all day. The other meaning of film, to cover with a thin skin, also runs through this form, and it is the source of the adjective for clouded surfaces.

2. 2
   adjective

   Covered with a thin film or coating.

   By the end, the patient's eyes were filmed and unfocused.

   A filmed haze had settled over the old portrait, hiding its colors.

   Similarglazed, clouded, misted, hazy

   Oppositeclear

   Note

   Eyes are a natural setting for this sense. Emily Carr writes of a gleam bursting through "his filmed eyes" in Klee Wyck (1941), where the film is a clouding that dulls the look. The adjective describes a state rather than a degree, so it is not graded: eyes are filmed or they are not, never "more filmed." When the substance is named, the word usually moves into hyphenated compounds.

3. 3
   adjectivein compounds

   Covered with a film of a specified substance, such as oil, grease, or frost.

   The lake's surface was filmed with a faint sheen of oil.

   By morning the windshield was filmed with a layer of frost.

   Similarcoated, covered, glazed

   Note

   A word that works in compounds, with the substance in front and a hyphen tying it on: the lichen-filmed tiles in H. G. Wells's The Chronic Argonauts (1888), the gold-filmed skin of D. H. Lawrence's "Pomegranate" (1923). The compound usually sits before its noun as one descriptive unit and takes no more or most. Without a substance in front, the word falls back to the plain "covered with a film" meaning.

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