injected
- 1Simple past and past participle of inject.
The doctor injected the vaccine before the patient left the clinic.
Fresh capital was injected into the struggling company last quarter.
Note
A regular -ed form: one spelling serves as the simple past and as the participle that follows have or builds the passive. The useful thing to watch is the object. A substance is injected into something (capital injected into a company, code injected into a running program). A recipient is injected with it (the patient was injected with a sedative). Both patterns turn up constantly in the passive.
The horse was injected with a mild sedative before the journey.
Attackers injected malicious code into the login page.
injected is a form of inject
inject, verb: To administer a dose of medicine or drugs to someone or something using a needle and syringe. Full entry
- Spelling
- inject → injected: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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