lectured
- 1Simple past and past participle of lecture.
He lectured at the university for over thirty years before retiring.
The new recruits were lectured on safety procedures before their first shift.
Note
One spelling serves as both past tense and participle, and the construction around it often shows which meaning is meant. In the teaching sense the verb can stand alone or take an object (she lectured on history; he lectured the class). In the scolding sense it always takes an object, so the passive comes naturally: we were lectured about punctuality. After have, it forms the perfect: has lectured for years.
She was lectured by her father about coming home so late.
They had been lectured so often that they stopped listening.
lectured is a form of lecture
lecture, verb: To teach someone by giving a speech on a particular topic. Full entry
- Spelling
- lecture → lectured: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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