raided
SayRAYD-id/ˈɹeɪdɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of raid.
Investigators raided the company's headquarters before dawn.
The bank had been raided twice before the new security system was installed.
Note
A regular -ed form doing double duty: the same spelling marks the simple past (they raided the depot) and the participle in perfect and passive clauses (it had been raided). Every meaning of the verb raid takes a direct object, so the passive comes easily. It works for an attack on a place, for enticing people away from a rival, and for helping oneself freely from a store of something.
raided is a form of raid
raid, verb: To carry out a sudden attack on a place in order to make arrests, seize goods, or plunder. Full entry
- Spelling
- raid → raided: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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