showered
- 1Simple past and past participle of shower.
He showered and changed before the evening interview.
Relatives showered the newlyweds with gifts at the reception.
Note
One regular -ed spelling serves both forms, so the surrounding construction tells you which one you are reading. The passive belongs to the transitive meanings: a couple is showered with gifts, a crowd is showered with spray, and with is the preposition that follows. The bathing and raining meanings take no object, so they appear only as a plain past or after have: she had showered; confetti showered down.
The winning team was showered with confetti as they left the field.
She had already showered by the time we arrived.
showered is a form of shower
shower, verb: To bathe using a shower. Full entry
- Spelling
- shower → showered: add -ed
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