scrapped
SaySKRAPT/skɹæpt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of scrap.
The city council scrapped the parking fee after a wave of complaints.
Steel from the scrapped ships was melted down and sold to a foundry.
Note
One spelling serves as simple past (they scrapped the plan) and past participle (the plan was scrapped), and it often stands before a noun: a scrapped engine. The doubled p keeps it apart from scraped, the past of scrape; writing it where scraped is meant is a misspelling. The form also covers fighting: two boys who scrapped behind the gym.
scrapped is a form of scrap
scrap, verb: To get rid of something that is no longer wanted; to discard. Full entry
- Spelling
- scrap → scrapped: double the p, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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