trended
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of trend.
The hashtag trended worldwide within hours of the announcement.
Unemployment trended downward through the second quarter.
Note
A regular past form doing double duty: on its own it is a simple past (sales trended upward), and after have it forms the perfect (sales have trended upward). Since the common meanings take no object, it usually travels with a direction such as upward, downward or toward, or, informally, describes whatever is currently popular. Only the senses that take an object, bending or cleaning wool, allow a passive: the wool was trended.
trended is a form of trend
trend, verb: To be widely shared and discussed online, becoming popular for a short time. Full entry
- Spelling
- trend → trended: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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