vacuumed

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of vacuum.

   He vacuumed every corner of the office after the renovation.

   The cleaning crew had vacuumed the hallways by the time we checked in.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs: the simple past (she vacuumed the stairs) and the past participle after have or in the passive (the stairs had been vacuumed). It takes an object when something is being cleaned, but it can stand alone when the chore itself is the point, as in he vacuumed while we cooked. Database administrators use the same form for a table that has been purged of deleted tuples.

2. 2
   adjective

   Gone over with a vacuum cleaner to remove dirt and dust.

   The freshly vacuumed rug showed faint parallel tracks from the cleaner.

   Guests admired the spotless, newly vacuumed lounge.

   Similarhoovered

   Note

   A participle that has settled into naming a state: the result of the past-tense verb, carried by the rug or room afterward. It does not take more or most, because a floor either has been vacuumed or has not. Emphasis therefore comes from adverbs of time, as in freshly vacuumed or newly vacuumed. Hoovered describes the same state.

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