formed
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of form.
The committee formed a plan to deal with the housing shortage.
These mountains formed over millions of years of slow uplift.
Note
A regular past whose two jobs share one spelling, so the surrounding words show which job it is doing. Because form works both with and without an object, the participle has two lives. With be it is passive: a word formed by derivation, a plan formed in committee. With have it can be intransitive: ice has formed on the glass, where nothing outside the ice did the shaping.
The adjective is formed by adding a suffix to the noun.
A thin crust of ice had formed on the windows overnight.
formed is a form of form
form, verb: To assemble or create something, causing it to come into being. Full entry
- Spelling
- form → formed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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