sounded
- 1Simple past and past participle of sound.
The bell sounded twice before the lecture began.
The fog horn had sounded all through the night without pause.
Note
One regular -ed form serves as both past and participle, and its grammar follows whichever use of sound it carries. As a linking verb it takes an adjective, not an adverb: she sounded tired, not tiredly. Only the transitive use forms a passive (the alarm was sounded), and lawyers keep a sense of their own, saying a claim sounded in a particular area of law.
She sounded tired when she called last night.
The alarm was sounded just after midnight.
sounded is a form of sound
sound, verb: To come across in a particular way, judging from what one has heard or read about something, as in sounds like a good idea. Full entry
- Spelling
- sound → sounded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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Origin
Doublet of sonata.