hissed
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of hiss.
The audience hissed loudly as the villain strode onto the stage.
She had hissed a warning before slipping back into the shadows.
Note
One spelling does two jobs, as with any regular verb. It is the past tense on its own (the crowd hissed) and the participle after have or be. Only the transitive uses take the passive: a singer can be hissed by a scornful crowd, and a warning can be hissed. The intransitive uses, such as escaping steam or something moving with a hiss, pair only with have: the kettle had hissed.
The tenor was hissed by the gallery on opening night.
"Get back," he hissed, pulling her behind the door.
hissed is a form of hiss
hiss, verb: To make a sharp sibilant sound like a snake or escaping air, or to give off steam or gas with such a sound. Full entry
- Spelling
- hiss → hissed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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