steeled
- 1Simple past and past participle of steel.
The soldiers steeled themselves for the coming assault.
Having steeled her nerves, she stepped onto the stage and began.
Note
One -ed form serves as both past tense and participle, and the participle often works as an adjective. Beside the familiar steeling of nerves sits a workshop vocabulary: a steeled edge or point is faced with steel, a steeled engraving plate has been electroplated with iron, and a steeled knife has been sharpened on a honing steel. Liquids were once steeled too, treated with steel for medicinal purposes, a use now obsolete.
steeled is a form of steel
steel, verb: To harden or strengthen, especially to give a person nerve, to make the heart unyielding, or to brace someone against something. Full entry
- Spelling
- steel → steeled: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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