sheriffed
SaySHER-ift/ˈʃɛɹɪft/
- 1Simple past and past participle of sheriff.
He sheriffed a stretch of desert so empty that most of his calls were about stray cattle.
Having sheriffed the county through two floods, she knew every back road by heart.
Note
Sheriff is a noun put to work as a verb, and it simply adds -ed after its double f. The object is the territory: she sheriffed the county for twelve years, and the town had never been sheriffed by an outsider. What the duties were depends on the office, from a usually elected American county lawman to a Scottish judge, so the setting tells a reader which is meant.
sheriffed is a form of sheriff
sheriff, verb: To carry out the duties of a sheriff in a particular area. Full entry
- Forms
- sheriffsheriffs he/she/itsheriffing -ing formsheriffed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- sheriff → sheriffed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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