worded
- 1Simple past and past participle of word.
He worded his resignation so politely that no one suspected his anger.
The contract was worded to protect both parties equally.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the main verb in the past (she worded it carefully) and the participle after have or be (it had been worded, it was worded). Because the living sense is transitive, the passive comes naturally, and an adverb often sits before it: a carefully worded reply, a strongly worded letter, with no hyphen after the -ly adverb. The archaic intransitive 'to speak, converse' and the obsolete 'to flatter' belong to older texts.
worded is a form of word
word, verb: To choose and arrange the language used to express something. Full entry
- Spelling
- word → worded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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