smoked
SaySMOHKT/smoʊkt/UK/sməʊkt/
- 1Past tense and past participle of smoke. Use this form for something that already happened.
He smoked a cigarette while waiting for the train.
They smoked the fish over an open fire.
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- 2Of food, cooked or kept fresh by being treated with smoke, which also adds flavor.
Like the way a campfire gives a hot dog its smoky taste.
We had smoked salmon on toast for breakfast.
The smoked ham tasted rich and a little salty.
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smoked is a form of smoke
smoke, verb: To breathe in and blow out smoke from a cigarette, cigar, pipe, or something else that is burning. Full entry
- Spelling
- smoke → smoked: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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Origins
Meanings 2–3
From Middle English smoked, from the word smoke plus -ed.
Meaning 1
From the word smoke.