railroaded
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of railroad.
Lawmakers railroaded the bill through the chamber before opponents could organize.
The defendant insisted he had been railroaded by a biased investigation.
Note
Both the past tense and the participle share one regular -ed spelling. What decides the passive is transitivity. Uses with an object passivize freely: cargo is railroaded to the coast, a bill is railroaded through a chamber, a defendant is railroaded. Uses without an object (running a line, working on one, riding it, or making it a hobby) form only the perfect, with have: she had railroaded for thirty years.
railroaded is a form of railroad
railroad, verb: To push a procedure, such as approving a law, through quickly by manipulation. Full entry
- Forms
- railroadrailroads he/she/itrailroading -ing formrailroaded past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- railroad → railroaded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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