loomed
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of loom.
The deadline loomed, and the whole team scrambled to finish in time.
A vast mountain loomed out of the mist as the climbers rounded the ridge.
Note
Because the verb behind it is intransitive, the participle never turns passive: nothing is ever "loomed" by anyone. It appears after have or had instead (the storm had loomed all afternoon) and otherwise stands alone as a past tense. The form belongs only to the verb. The weaver's frame and the shaft of an oar are nouns spelled the same way, and they have no past form.
loomed is a form of loom
loom, verb: To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form, towering over something, dominating the mind, or seeming dangerously imminent. Full entry
- Spelling
- loom → loomed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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