probed
- 1Simple past and past participle of probe.
Investigators probed the company's finances for several months.
The crash site was probed carefully before anything was moved.
Note
One regular form does double duty: probe simply adds -d, and the result serves both as past tense (she probed) and as participle after have or be (had probed, was probed). Because the investigative verb can take an object or go without one, probed can stand alone, as in the reporter probed further. The literal sense of inserting a probe into a wound or organ always takes an object, or else appears in the passive.
probed is a form of probe
probe, verb: To explore, investigate, or question something closely in order to learn more about it. Full entry
- Spelling
- probe → probed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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