ponded
- 1Simple past and past participle of pond.
Floodwater ponded against the embankment for several days before draining away.
The runoff ponded in shallow depressions across the parking lot.
Note
One spelling serves both the past tense and the participle, and the verb behind it can work two ways. When water gathers on its own, it is intransitive and the perfect takes have: rain had ponded on the roof. When someone dams the water, the participle goes passive: the stream was ponded behind a weir. In older writing it can also mean pondered, from a sense of the verb now obsolete.
The stream was ponded behind a low earth dam to water the cattle.
Rain had ponded on the flat roof overnight.
ponded is a form of pond
pond, verb: To gather and remain as a body of standing water; to pool. Full entry
- Spelling
- pond → ponded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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