rocketed
- 1Simple past and past participle of rocket.
Stock prices rocketed to record highs within hours of the announcement.
Her popularity has rocketed since the documentary first aired.
Note
One spelling does double duty. It is the simple past (prices rocketed overnight) and, after have, the perfect (her popularity has rocketed). Most uses are intransitive, for whatever rises, soars or shoots to sudden fame. The transitive senses, carrying something by rocket or attacking with rockets, take an object and so also allow a passive: supplies are rocketed into orbit, and positions are rocketed from the air.
The supplies were rocketed into orbit on the first launch of the season.
Enemy positions along the ridge were rocketed throughout the night.
rocketed is a form of rocket
rocket, verb: To rise, soar, or fly upward very rapidly; (of prices, numbers, etc.) to increase very quickly. Full entry
- Spelling
- rocket → rocketed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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