queened
SayKWEEND/kwiːnd/
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of queen.
With one bold move she queened her pawn and turned the game around.
The pawn was queened on the eighth rank, becoming the strongest piece on the board.
Note
One spelling serves as both past tense and past participle, as with any regular -ed verb. Most uses are transitive, so the participle takes the passive easily: a pawn is queened, a hive is queened with a new bee. The older intransitive "queened it," meaning behaved imperiously, is obsolete. A slang sexual sense shares the form, so let context make a chess or beekeeping meaning plain.
queened is a form of queen
queen, verb: To promote a pawn to a queen, typically when it advances to the opponent's back rank. Full entry
- Spelling
- queen → queened: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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