whaled
SayWAYLD/weɪld/
- 1Simple past and past participle of whale.
The fleet whaled in the North Atlantic for decades before the industry collapsed.
He whaled on the drums through the entire encore.
Note
The ending is the regular -ed, so one spelling serves as both the simple past and the participle after have or be. Which auxiliary it allows depends on the meaning. Hunting whales is intransitive, so it takes have (the crew had whaled for years) but has no passive. The slang sense of beating soundly is transitive, so the passive is open to it: he was whaled by his opponent.
whaled is a form of whale
whale, verb: To go out hunting for whales. Full entry
- Spelling
- whale → whaled: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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