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-'d

-'d suffix: -ed.

-'d: -ed
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Suffix

-'d

  1. (archaic, poetic) -ed.
    • Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steeld1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 24”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
    • But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
      Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
      And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
      On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
      Which will be remember'd for a very long time.1880, William Topaz McGonagall, The Tay Bridge Disaster
  2. Sometimes used to form the past tense of some awkward verbs that are in the form of numerals, letters, and abbreviations, especially in online communication. Compare -’s.
    • Google Plus - You +1'd this.
    • I just lol'd but then stopped and realized this wasn't funny.

Questions about -'d

What does -'d mean?
-'d means -ed.
What part of speech is -'d?
-'d is a suffix.

Words near -'d in the dictionary

  1. +1
  2. +1s
  3. +2
  4. +ve
  5. -'
  6. -'d
  7. -'er
  8. -'nt
  9. -'s
  10. -'st
  11. -(s)

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