fooled
SayFOOLD/fuːld/
- 1Simple past and past participle of fool.
The con artist fooled dozens of investors out of their savings.
Nobody was fooled by such a flimsy excuse.
Note
One regular -ed form does double duty, serving as the simple past (she fooled them) and as the participle (they had been fooled). Only the transitive 'trick' meaning of fool can be made passive, so a phrase like nobody was fooled always means nobody was deceived, never that someone acted foolishly. In the passive, the deceiver or the trick follows by: fooled by a flimsy excuse.
fooled is a form of fool
fool, verb: To trick or deceive someone, or make them look foolish. Full entry
- Spelling
- fool → fooled: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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