gestured
- 1Simple past and past participle of gesture.
The guide gestured at the old painting as she explained its history.
He had gestured several times before anyone in the noisy room noticed him.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. Alone it is the simple past (she gestured), and after have it forms the perfect (she had gestured). The verb is flexible about objects. It can stand alone or point with a preposition, as in gestured at or gestured toward. It can also take what is expressed (they gestured their thanks), or a person plus an instruction (he gestured her to sit), a pattern worth knowing alongside the familiar gestured at.
They gestured their thanks from across the street.
The usher gestured us to the front row.
gestured is a form of gesture
gesture, verb: To move the hands, arms, or body in a way that communicates or emphasizes something. Full entry
- Spelling
- gesture → gestured: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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