rebooted
- 1Simple past and past participle of reboot.
The technician rebooted the server after installing the update.
After the crash, the whole system was rebooted remotely.
Note
One regular -ed form does double duty: the simple past (she rebooted the laptop) and the participle after have or be (it has been rebooted). Because reboot works both with and without an object, the machine itself can be the subject (the server rebooted overnight) with no passive needed. The wider sense carries over too: a stalled project can be rebooted, meaning started afresh.
The server rebooted on its own overnight.
After the failed launch, the team rebooted the whole campaign.
rebooted is a form of reboot
reboot, verb: To run a computer's startup sequence again, resetting it and reloading the operating system, often after a crash. Full entry
- Spelling
- reboot → rebooted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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