grayed
SayGRAYD/ɡɹeɪd/
UK spellinggreyed
- 1Simple past and past participle of gray.
His temples grayed during the long years of the war.
The morning sky grayed as the storm clouds rolled in.
Note
The regular -ed ending lets one form serve both the plain past (the sky grayed at dusk) and the perfect after have (his hair had grayed by forty). The verb usually describes things turning gray by themselves, and it reaches past hair and skies to whole populations: a town that has grayed over the decades has grown older on average. Grayed is the American spelling.
grayed is a form of gray
gray, verb: To become gray, or make something gray, especially as hair loses its color with age; of a population, to grow older on average. Full entry
- Spelling
- gray → grayed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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