wowed
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of wow.
The new chef wowed the judges with a dessert nobody expected.
The startup's demo had wowed investors long before the product shipped.
Note
A regular past form: wow simply adds -ed, and the one spelling covers both she wowed the crowd and they had wowed investors. The verb is informal and transitive, so it needs an object, the person amazed, and it turns passive easily: the judges were wowed by the dessert. The same spelling also carries the emoticon-reaction verb, so context decides which is meant.
The judges were wowed by a dessert nobody expected.
Audiences have wowed and been wowed in equal measure.
- 2To respond to something online by attaching an emoticon that conveys the meaning of 'wow'.
I wowed the announcement as soon as it appeared in my feed.
Half the team wowed the screenshot of the record sales figures.
wowed is a form of wow
wow, verb: To amaze, awe, or greatly impress someone. Full entry
- Spelling
- wow → wowed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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