spooned
- 1Simple past and past participle of spoon.
The nurse spooned warm broth between the patient's lips.
The last of the stew was spooned onto their plates before the fire died.
Note
A form that carries far more than soup. Besides serving with a spoon, it covers the dated sense of courting, lying nestled front-to-back, nudging a ball with a weak lifting stroke, and fishing with spoon bait. Watch the construction: the courting sense takes no object (they spooned on the porch), so it has no passive. The serving sense takes an object and moves into the passive freely (the broth was spooned out).
The young couple spooned on the porch swing until her father called her in.
They had spooned all night to keep warm in the drafty cabin.
spooned is a form of spoon
spoon, verb: To serve or transfer something using a spoon. Full entry
- Spelling
- spoon → spooned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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