strengthened
SaySTRENG-thuhnd/ˈstɹɛŋθənd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of strengthen.
Years of careful training strengthened the team's defense.
The bridge was strengthened with steel cables before the winter floods.
Note
One -ed form does double duty as past tense and past participle, so the words around it tell you which one you are reading. After have it marks the perfect (the treaty has strengthened ties). After be it marks the passive (ties were strengthened), which works only for the transitive uses. The intransitive 'grow stronger' use gives sentences like the wind strengthened overnight, and these have no passive at all.
strengthened is a form of strengthen
strengthen, verb: To make someone or something stronger, or to add strength to it. Full entry
- Forms
- strengthenstrengthens he/she/itstrengthening -ing formstrengthened past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- strengthen → strengthened: add -ed
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