moderated
- 1Simple past and past participle of moderate.
She moderated the panel discussion at the conference last week.
The forum was moderated to remove abusive comments before they spread.
Note
One regular -ed form serves as both the past tense and the participle, so the construction tells you which one you are reading. The intransitive use, becoming less excessive, forms its perfect with have: the storm has moderated. The transitive uses, toning something down or presiding as a moderator, also take the passive (a debate moderated by a journalist). The participle sits easily before a noun, as in a moderated forum.
Inflation has moderated since the spring.
The winds moderated overnight and the ferries ran again.
moderated is a form of moderate
moderate, verb: To reduce the excessiveness or intensity of something; to make something less extreme. Full entry
- Forms
- moderatemoderates he/she/itmoderating -ing formmoderated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- moderate → moderated: add -d
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