served
- 1Simple past and past participle of serve.
The restaurant served over three hundred meals that night.
He had served in the army for ten years before retiring.
Note
One spelling does two jobs, because serve is a regular verb. The past tense stands alone, and the participle follows have or be. Only the transitive meanings can go into the passive: meals were served, a god was served. The intransitive meaning, holding a post or performing duties, takes have but never be: she had served two terms. The archaic meaning, treating someone in a given way, works the same way: he was ill served.
served is a form of serve
serve, verb: To do the duties of a job, office, or public role, such as holding office or sitting on a jury. Full entry
- Spelling
- serve → served: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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