rewarded
- 1Simple past and past participle of reward.
The company rewarded its top performers with year-end bonuses.
Years of patient saving were finally rewarded when she bought her first home.
Note
One spelling serves both past tense and participle, so the surrounding words decide which you are reading: alone it is the finite verb (they rewarded her), after have or be it is the participle (she has been rewarded). Since reward is transitive, the passive comes easily: a person is rewarded for an act, and effort itself can be rewarded. An obsolete use made the gift, not the person, the object.
rewarded is a form of reward
reward, verb: To give something of value to (a person, or for an act) in recognition or compensation. Full entry
- Spelling
- reward → rewarded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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