telephoned
- 1Simple past and past participle of telephone.
The clerk telephoned each supplier before placing the large order.
By the time we arrived, she had already telephoned the police.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the plain past (she telephoned at noon) and the participle after have or had (she had telephoned). The verb works with or without an object, so you can have telephoned a friend or simply telephoned. It can also take the message itself as its object, as in telephoned the news to the office, and that use passivizes naturally: the results were telephoned in.
telephoned is a form of telephone
telephone, verb: To call or try to call someone by telephone, or to pass on a message or information to someone by telephone. Full entry
- Forms
- telephonetelephones he/she/ittelephoning -ing formtelephoned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- telephone → telephoned: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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