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phoned

verb
SayFOHND/foʊnd/UK/fəʊnd/

1 meaning of phoned

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  1. 1
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of phone.

    The witness phoned the police as soon as she saw the smoke.

    By the time we arrived, she had already phoned ahead to reserve a table.

    Note

    A regular form: the silent e of phone simply takes a d, and one spelling serves as both past tense and past participle. The verb behind it works with or without an object (she phoned her sister, she phoned ahead). When someone is the one called, the participle can also go passive: the police were phoned at midnight.

phoned is a form of phone

phone, verb: To contact someone by making a telephone call. Full entry

Forms
phonephones he/she/itphoning -ing formphoned past tense, past participle
Spelling
phone → phoned: add -d

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