weeded
- 1Simple past and past participle of weed.
He weeded the vegetable patch after the spring rains.
The volunteers weeded around the young saplings before mulching them.
Note
One regular -ed form serves every use of the verb. It covers the gardener's beds that have been weeded and the librarian's collection weeded against a set of criteria. It also covers the figurative sense, a collection weeded of its best items by a pilferer. The form sits comfortably in passives and before nouns: a freshly weeded border, a weeded shelf. Keep it apart from the bare weed that serves as the past of wee.
weeded is a form of weed
weed, verb: To clear unwanted plants from a garden, lawn, or field so cultivated plants can thrive. Full entry
- Spelling
- weed → weeded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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