fined
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of fine.
The court fined the company for dumping waste into the river.
Drivers caught texting at the wheel were fined on the spot.
Note
One spelling covers two quite different verbs. Besides the penalty sense, it is also the past form of fine meaning to purify or clarify: wine or beer that has been fined has been cleared by filtration. In dated use, something could be fined away, fined down or fined off, dwindling by degrees. In both meanings the form is regular, fine plus -d. It stands alone as a simple past (they fined it) and follows has or was as a participle.
fined is a form of fine
fine, verb: To charge someone a sum of money as a penalty for breaking a law or rule. Full entry
- Spelling
- fine → fined: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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