smarted
USSMART-id/ˈsmɑɹtɪd/UKSMAHT-id/ˈsmɑːtɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of smart.
The fresh wound smarted whenever she pressed the bandage against it.
His pride smarted long after the public correction.
Note
One regular spelling covers both the simple past (the cut smarted) and the perfect (it had smarted all day). It belongs only to the verb of stinging pain, whether the hurt is in the body or the mind. The adjective smart, meaning "clever," has no past form at all. Usually the wound or the wounded pride does the smarting, though a rarer transitive use lets a blow smart the skin.
smarted is a form of smart
smart, verb: To feel a sharp, stinging pain of body or mind; to suffer keenly from grief or punishment. Full entry
- Spelling
- smart → smarted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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