weighed
- 1Simple past and past participle of weigh.
He weighed the package carefully before mailing it.
The committee weighed several proposals before settling on one.
Note
One spelling serves as both past tense and past participle, and the meaning of weigh decides which constructions it can enter. The measuring and judging uses are transitive, so they take the passive: the flour was weighed out, the evidence was carefully weighed. The stative use, having a certain weight, cannot: the parcel weighed two pounds has no passive counterpart.
Each portion of flour was weighed out before baking.
The suitcase weighed twenty kilos at check-in.
weighed is a form of weigh
weigh, verb: To measure how heavy an object is, typically using a scale or balance. Full entry
- Spelling
- weigh → weighed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with weighed, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.