perfected
USpur-FEK-tid/pɚˈfɛktɪd/UKpuh-FEK-tid/pəˈfɛktɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of perfect.
The chef perfected the sauce over years of trial and error.
Once the technique was perfected, the whole team adopted it.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the finite past (she perfected the recipe) and the participle that follows have or be (it has been perfected). Used before a noun, it keeps the sense of work done. A perfected technique has been honed over time, while a perfect one simply has no flaw. Lawyers use it as well: a right is perfected when the document that secures it is filed in the proper venue.
perfected is a form of perfect
perfect, verb: To bring something to its finest state by improving or honing it. Full entry
- Forms
- perfectperfects he/she/itperfecting -ing formperfected past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- perfect → perfected: add -ed
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