joined
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of join.
The two rivers joined just below the old mill.
He joined the company straight out of college and never left.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does three jobs: simple past, perfect participle after have, and passive participle after be. The passive belongs only to the transitive uses: boards are joined, a newcomer is joined by friends, database tables are joined on a shared column. The intransitive uses, coming together or uniting in a cause, form only the perfect with have: the rivers had joined below the mill.
The two tables were joined on the customer ID.
By noon the search party had joined us at the ridge.
joined is a form of join
join, verb: To become a member of a group, organization, or body. Full entry
- Spelling
- join → joined: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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