milked
SayMILKT/mɪlkt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of milk.
The dairy workers milked the entire herd twice a day.
By dawn, every cow had been milked and led back to pasture.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does both jobs here: it follows a subject (they milked the herd) and it follows have or be (the herd had been milked). The figurative use carries over intact, so a speaker can have milked a point or a fund. A passive needs an object to promote, though. The battery-charging use takes none, so it appears only in the active: the cells milked as charging finished.
milked is a form of milk
milk, verb: To draw milk from a cow or other mammal, by hand or machine; also, to draw another liquid such as venom from an animal. Full entry
- Spelling
- milk → milked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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