meowed
Saymee-OWD/miˈaʊ̯d/
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of meow.
The stray meowed at the back door until someone let it in.
The cat had meowed for an hour before we found it shut in the closet.
Note
A regular past form, so one spelling does both jobs: the stray meowed stands alone as simple past, while the cat had meowed takes have to build the perfect. Because the verb is intransitive (a cat meows; it does not meow something), the participle rarely turns passive. Meow also serves as a noun and an interjection, but only the verb takes this -ed ending.
meowed is a form of meow
meow, verb: Of a cat, to produce its characteristic cry. Full entry
- Spelling
- meow → meowed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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