wronged
- 1Simple past and past participle of wrong.
The villagers believed the landlord had wronged them for generations.
He wronged her deeply, and she never forgave him for it.
Note
A regular -ed form, so the past tense and the participle are spelled alike: she wronged him; he has been wronged; those wronged by the system. The verb always means doing someone an injustice: harming them, denying them their due, or slandering them. It never means making a mistake. Someone who erred got it wrong; someone who was cheated or maligned was wronged, and the object is the person who suffered.
wronged is a form of wrong
wrong, verb: To treat someone unjustly or unfairly, for example by harming them, denying them their rights, or falsely accusing them. Full entry
- Spelling
- wrong → wronged: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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