flowed
SayFLOHDUS/floʊd/UK/fləʊd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of flow.
Lava flowed down the mountainside for several days.
Tears flowed freely as she read the letter from home.
Note
Flow never takes an object, so this form has no ordinary passive: rivers flowed and tears had flowed, but nothing "was flowed." After have or had it builds the perfect (the wine had flowed all evening). The old tidal use survives in it too, paired with its opposite: the tide flowed, then ebbed.
flowed is a form of flow
flow, verb: To run or stream from one point to another in the manner of a fluid. Full entry
- Spelling
- flow → flowed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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