plugged
SayPLUGD/plʌɡd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of plug.
He plugged the leak before the water spread any further.
The gaps around the window had been plugged with foam insulation.
Note
A regular past form with one spelling quirk: the final g doubles before -ed. After have it makes the perfect, and after be, the passive, but only in the transitive meanings. A leak, a product or a person can be plugged. The informal sense of persisting takes no object, so it appears in the simple past or after have, never after be.
plugged is a form of plug
plug, verb: To stop up with a plug, or to make something tight by stopping a hole. Full entry
- Spelling
- plug → plugged: double the g, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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