identified
- 1Simple past and past participle of identify.
Researchers identified three new species during the expedition.
The fault was identified during a routine inspection of the engine.
Note
One spelling does double duty: past tense (she identified the caller) and participle after have or be (has identified, was identified). The construction also helps tell the meanings apart. In the passive, identified with usually means "equated with," as in a name identified with a cause. In the active voice it is about feeling: readers identified with the heroine, sharing her outlook rather than naming her.
For a decade his name was identified with the reform movement.
Many readers identified with the young heroine's loneliness.
identified is a form of identify
identify, verb: To work out or establish who someone is or what something is, including naming the species of a plant or animal. Full entry
- Forms
- identifyidentifies he/she/itidentifying -ing formidentified past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- identify → identified: change y to i, add -ed
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