grabbed
- 1Simple past and past participle of grab.
The child grabbed a handful of candy from the bowl.
By the time we arrived, someone had grabbed the best parking spot.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the simple past (she grabbed the rail) and the participle behind perfects and passives (he had grabbed it; the suspect was grabbed outside). The final b doubles before -ed, as with other short verbs ending in one vowel and one consonant. Every meaning of grab carries over, including the informal ones: you can have grabbed a sandwich, or been grabbed by a story's opening line.
Two men were grabbed by police as they left the building.
The first chapter grabbed me, and I read until dawn.
grabbed is a form of grab
grab, verb: To take hold of something suddenly and forcefully; to seize or clutch it. Full entry
- Spelling
- grab → grabbed: double the b, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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