thanked
- 1Simple past and past participle of thank.
He thanked the firefighters who pulled his cat from the tree.
Every volunteer was thanked personally by the organizers before leaving.
Note
Because thank takes a direct object, the passive comes naturally: the person thanked becomes the subject, using the same form as in he thanked them. Watch the figurative use, chiefly with for, where being thanked means being blamed. The organizers were thanked for the chaos is not praise. The commanding construction, I will thank you to knock first, lives in the future tense, so it rarely surfaces as thanked.
thanked is a form of thank
thank, verb: To show or express gratitude to someone for something, in words or through a gesture or reward. Full entry
- Spelling
- thank → thanked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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