outed
SayOWT-idUS · UK/ˈaʊtɪd/AUS/ˈæɔtɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of out.
The journalist outed the official who had quietly leaked the documents.
She was outed by a stranger before she was ready to tell her family.
Note
A regular -ed form doing double duty, so the words around it show which job it is doing: they outed him is simple past, he was outed is passive, and she had outed them is past perfect. Most meanings of the verb act on someone, such as exposing an agent, a secret, or a person as LGBTQ+. That makes the passive a natural fit, with the exposed person as its subject.
outed is a form of out
out, verb: To emerge or escape, and especially to become public or apparent. Full entry
- Spelling
- out → outed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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