generated
USJEN-ur-ayt-id/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɚ.eɪt.ɪd/UKJEN-uh-rayt-id/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt.ɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of generate.
The reactor generated enough electricity to supply the entire city.
These reports were generated automatically by the accounting software.
Note
One regular -ed form does double duty here. It serves as the simple past (the reactor generated power) and, after have or be, as the participle in perfect and passive constructions (had generated, was generated). Because the verb almost always takes an object, the passive is very common: reports are generated, heat is generated. Its rare intransitive use, meaning simply to arise, means the same as the passive.
generated is a form of generate
generate, verb: To bring something into being or cause it to happen. Full entry
- Forms
- generategenerates he/she/itgenerating -ing formgenerated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- generate → generated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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