planted
- 1Simple past and past participle of plant.
The volunteers planted hundreds of trees along the riverbank.
Investigators discovered that someone had planted false documents in the files.
Note
One regular -ed form does both jobs: simple past (they planted a garden) and participle after have or be (the seeds were planted). Middle English still had iplanted, keeping the old participle prefix from Old English ġeplantod. The participle carries every sense of the verb, so watch context: planted evidence is placed to deceive, feet planted firmly are set with conviction, and a planted doubt has been sown in the mind.
planted is a form of plant
plant, verb: To put seeds or young plants in the ground to grow, or to fill an area with plants. Full entry
- Spelling
- plant → planted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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Origin
From Middle English planted (also iplaunted, iplanted), from Old English ġeplantod ("planted"), equivalent to plant + -ed.