shrugged
SaySHRUGD/ʃɹʌɡd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of shrug.
He shrugged off the insult and kept walking down the street.
She had shrugged at the news, pretending the loss meant nothing to her.
Note
The doubled g keeps the vowel short, as in hug and hugged. Because the verb works with or without an object, both she shrugged and she shrugged her shoulders are correct; the second only spells out what the first implies. The form also carries the phrasal verb shrug off, meaning to dismiss something. The gesture once signaled dread as well as indifference, though that use has faded.
shrugged is a form of shrug
shrug, verb: To raise the shoulders briefly to express uncertainty, lack of concern, or, in former use, dread. Full entry
- Spelling
- shrug → shrugged: double the g, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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