petitioned
- 1Simple past and past participle of petition.
The workers petitioned management for safer conditions.
Residents have petitioned the city to repair the old bridge.
Note
A regular -ed form doing double duty: one spelling covers the simple past (they petitioned the council) and the participle (they have petitioned; the council was petitioned). Because the verb is transitive, the authority being addressed is its direct object and comes straight after it. That object can become the subject of a passive. What is sought follows with for, or with a to-infinitive naming the action wanted.
The governor was petitioned by thousands of farmers.
The council had already been petitioned twice for a new library.
petitioned is a form of petition
petition, verb: To make a formal request to a ruler or governing authority, asking for action or the redress of a wrong. Full entry
- Forms
- petitionpetitions he/she/itpetitioning -ing formpetitioned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- petition → petitioned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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