testified
TES-ti-fyd/ˈtɛstɪfaɪd/
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of testify.
The accountant testified that the company records had been altered.
Several neighbors testified before the grand jury last month.
Note
The y of testify turns to i before -ed, as in other verbs ending in a consonant plus y. One spelling covers the plain past (she testified) and the perfect after have (he has testified). It carries every meaning of the verb: sworn evidence in court, a declaration of personal knowledge or faith, and a thing standing as evidence. It can take an object or a that-clause, or stand alone: the witness testified.
testified is a form of testify
testify, verb: To make a declaration or give evidence under oath, as a sworn witness does. Full entry
- Forms
- testifytestifies he/she/ittestifying -ing formtestified past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- testify → testified: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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