paired
- 1Simple past and past participle of pair.
The chef paired the grilled fish with a light citrus sauce.
Engineers paired the two devices so they could share data wirelessly.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does double duty here: past tense (she paired the socks) and past participle (has paired, was paired). Only the transitive uses make a passive: grouping things in twos, linking devices wirelessly, bringing dogs together to mate (the phone was paired). The intransitive ones, animals coming together to mate or one thing suiting another as a counterpart, stay active. 'The birds paired in spring' has no passive twin.
paired is a form of pair
pair, verb: To arrange people or things into one or more sets of two. Full entry
- Spelling
- pair → paired: add -ed
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