longed
USLAWNGD/ˈlɔŋd/UKLONGD/ˈlɒŋd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of long.
The sailors longed for dry land after months at sea.
She longed to return to the town where she grew up.
Note
One regular -ed form does duty for every verb spelled long, and those verbs behave differently. The yearning verb is intransitive and needs for or an infinitive: she longed for home, she had longed to leave. The trader's verb is transitive and takes its object directly, so a fund that longed the shares took a long position in them. An archaic verb meant 'belonged' or 'pertained to'.
longed is a form of long
long, verb: To yearn, or desire something strongly and often hopelessly, with for or to. Full entry
- Spelling
- long → longed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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