heavied
SayHEV-eed/ˈhɛv.id/
- 1Simple past and past participle of heavy.
Local thugs heavied the small shop owners for weekly payments.
Witnesses claimed they had been heavied into changing their statements.
Note
A regular past form: the y of heavy turns to i before -ed, as in carried or worried. One spelling serves both the simple past and the participle, so the passive comes easily, as when someone is heavied into doing something. That pressuring use is informal Australian and New Zealand English. The quieter senses, to make heavier and to sadden, take exactly the same form.
heavied is a form of heavy
heavy, verb: To use power or wealth to pressure a person or institution, such as a government or company, into compliance. Full entry
- Spelling
- heavy → heavied: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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