tasted
- 1Simple past and past participle of taste.
He tasted the wine and nodded with quiet approval.
They had tasted nothing so sweet in years.
Note
One spelling does double duty: it is the simple past (he tasted the soup) and the participle after have (she had tasted it). The construction matters more than the form. As a linking verb it takes an adjective, not an adverb: the soup tasted salty, never saltily. Used figuratively, it means experienced, as in they tasted defeat or a man who has tasted freedom.
The soup tasted faintly of smoke.
The team had never tasted defeat before that season.
tasted is a form of taste
taste, verb: To have a particular flavor; to produce the sensation by which a flavor is recognized. Full entry
- Spelling
- taste → tasted: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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