placed
- 1Simple past and past participle of place.
The architect placed the staircase at the very center of the building.
The fragile vase had been placed far too close to the edge of the shelf.
Note
One spelling carries every job the verb place can do, and what follows it decides the meaning. With an object it usually means put somewhere. With an ordinal and no object it reports a finish (she placed third), and a horse or dog that simply placed came second. With a person or a face as its object it means recognized: we knew him but never placed him.
She placed third in the national final after a stumble on the last lap.
I knew the voice at once but never placed it until she gave her name.
placed is a form of place
place, verb: To set or arrange a person or thing in a given position. Full entry
- Spelling
- place → placed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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