participated
- 1Simple past and past participle of participate.
Local residents participated actively in the town hall meeting.
The committee had participated in earlier negotiations before the deal collapsed.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does double duty: the simple past (they participated) and the participle after have (they had participated). The living verb is intransitive, so it normally needs in before what is joined: participated in the talks, not participated the talks. Taking a direct object, in the sense of sharing something with others, belongs to older uses now obsolete, so a passive such as was participated is not current English.
participated is a form of participate
participate, verb: To take part in an activity or event, involving yourself together with others. Full entry
- Forms
- participateparticipates he/she/itparticipating -ing formparticipated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- participate → participated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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