prospected
- 1Simple past and past participle of prospect.
Settlers prospected the canyon for silver throughout the 1870s.
The region had been prospected long before the railway arrived.
Note
It is a regular -ed form doing double duty as past tense and past participle, and it belongs only to the searching verb, never to prospect the noun meaning a view. Used intransitively it takes for: they prospected for gold. With a place as its object it means surveying that ground for minerals, and only then can it go passive: the hills were prospected, the claim had been prospected.
Thousands of hopefuls prospected for gold along the river that summer.
Few miners had prospected for copper so far north.
prospected is a form of prospect
prospect, verb: To search an area for gold or other valuable minerals. Full entry
- Forms
- prospectprospects he/she/itprospecting -ing formprospected past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- prospect → prospected: add -ed
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