hailed
- 1Simple past and past participle of hail.
Critics hailed the novel as a masterpiece of modern fiction.
The new policy was hailed by environmental groups across the country.
Note
One spelling carries the past of two quite different families of meaning. The weather senses are impersonal or intransitive: it hailed all afternoon, and blows hailed down on the door. The greeting, naming and calling senses are transitive, so only they can turn passive: a cab is hailed, and a novel was hailed as a masterpiece. A following as or by phrase is a sure sign the weather is not involved.
It hailed so hard that the young crops were flattened.
Stones hailed down on the soldiers from the rooftops.
hailed is a form of hail
hail, verb: To come from or originate in a particular place, family, or background, or to be based in a particular place. Full entry
- Spelling
- hail → hailed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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