forwarded
- 1Simple past and past participle of forward.
The clerk forwarded the complaint to the department responsible for it.
All of her mail was forwarded to the temporary address during the renovation.
Note
One regular -ed spelling serves every sense of the verb, not just the mailroom one. A plan can be forwarded in the sense of advanced or promoted. A bookbinder has forwarded a book once its sections are sewn and its boards attached. In Caribbean English, where forward can mean "arrive", it takes no object at all. Only the transitive senses make a passive: the letter was forwarded, the book was forwarded.
forwarded is a form of forward
forward, verb: To send a letter, email, or other message on to a third party or another address. Full entry
- Forms
- forwardforwards he/she/itforwarding -ing formforwarded past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- forward → forwarded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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