massed
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of mass.
Protesters massed in front of the parliament building at dawn.
Heavy clouds had massed along the coast, signaling an approaching storm.
Note
The past form of a verb that works in both directions: things can mass on their own, or someone can mass them. Clouds massed over the hills; a general massed his troops; troops were massed along the front, with be forming the passive and have the perfect. Rarely, it is also the past of an unrelated, now obsolete verb meaning to celebrate mass. That reading has nothing to do with crowds or clouds.
The general massed his troops along the border before the attack.
Troops were massed along the front for weeks.
massed is a form of mass
mass, verb: To form or collect into a single body or large group; to assemble. Full entry
- Spelling
- mass → massed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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