freed
- 1Simple past and past participle of free.
The court freed the prisoner after new evidence came to light.
Volunteers freed the whale that had become entangled in fishing nets.
Note
One spelling serves both the past tense (they freed him) and the participle behind perfect and passive forms (he has been freed). Because free is also an adjective, the two are worth telling apart: a free man simply is at liberty, while a freed man was released by someone. The same participle covers riddance (freed from fear) and, among programmers, memory handed back to the system.
freed is a form of free
free, verb: To release someone or something from captivity, control, or anything that confines, traps or burdens them; often with from or of. Full entry
- Spelling
- free → freed: add -d
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