occasioned
uh-KAY-zhuhnd/əˈkeɪʒənd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of occasion.
The sudden storm occasioned widespread flooding across the valley.
His abrupt resignation was occasioned by a serious family emergency.
Note
A regular form, so one spelling serves as both the past tense and the participle: a storm occasioned the flooding; the flooding was occasioned by the storm. Because the verb means 'to cause' and is transitive, it always needs an object, or in the passive a by-phrase naming the cause. It suits formal prose and stays close to the noun's sense of a cause or reason that brings something about.
occasioned is a form of occasion
occasion, verb: To bring something about as its cause; to produce or give rise to a result. Full entry
- Forms
- occasionoccasions he/she/itoccasioning -ing formoccasioned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- occasion → occasioned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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