stiffed
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of stiff.
The contractor stiffed several suppliers before the company collapsed.
She felt stiffed when the settlement paid out far less than promised.
Note
A regular past form: the double f simply takes -ed, and one spelling serves as both the past tense and the participle. The participle often appears in the passive, where the person cheated or underpaid becomes the subject: the waiter got stiffed, she felt stiffed. Used without an object, the same form carries the informal meaning 'failed', so a show that stiffed simply did not succeed.
The waiter got stiffed by a table of twelve.
The play stiffed and closed within a week.
stiffed is a form of stiff
stiff, verb: To fail to pay what one owes someone, especially by leaving in a hurry. Full entry
- Spelling
- stiff → stiffed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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