wintered
- 1Simple past and past participle of winter.
The expedition wintered on the ice shelf before pushing toward the pole.
Flocks of geese have wintered in these wetlands for generations.
Note
One -ed spelling covers both past tense and participle, and the verb's two uses decide how it behaves. Spending the season somewhere is intransitive, so the perfect takes have (the geese have wintered here) and no passive is possible. Keeping animals or stores safe through the cold is transitive, which opens up the passive: the herd was wintered in the lower barns.
The farmer wintered his ewes on the lowland pasture.
The young trees were wintered in a cold frame until spring.
wintered is a form of winter
winter, verb: To pass the winter living or staying in a particular place. Full entry
- Spelling
- winter → wintered: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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