platformed

1. 1
   adjective

   Of shoes, built up with very thick soles and heels that add to the wearer's apparent height.

   The model strode down the runway in platformed heels nearly six inches tall.

   Glam-rock performers of the 1970s favored wildly platformed boots on stage.

   Oppositeflat

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of platform.

   The festival platformed emerging artists from across the region.

   Critics argued the broadcaster platformed extremist views without challenge.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both simple past and past participle, so "the festival platformed new artists" and "new artists were platformed" share the same form. Most uses of the verb take a direct object: a plank of a political program, a contested topic, a film opened in a few theaters before wide release. That object is what lets it turn passive. Before a noun like boots, the same spelling is usually the shoe adjective.

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