hoped
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of hope.
The villagers hoped the rains would arrive before the crops failed.
Investors had hoped the merger would lift share prices.
Note
One spelling does both past jobs: the simple past (they hoped) and the participle after have (they had hoped). Every construction of hope carries over unchanged: hoped that the rains would come, hoped so or hoped not, hoped to finish, hoped for a reply, hoped in a promise. Because the for-construction can turn passive, the participle also forms the compound adjective hoped-for, hyphenated before a noun: the hoped-for rescue.
We had hoped to finish the climb before dark.
The hoped-for rescue never came.
hoped is a form of hope
hope, verb: To want something to happen or to be true, or to want and intend to do something, and think it may happen. Full entry
- Spelling
- hope → hoped: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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