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chimed

/t͡ʃaɪmd/

chimed is the simple past and past participle of chime.

Meaning of chime

Verb

chime (third-person singular simple present chimes, present participle chiming, simple past and past participle chimed)

  1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
    • The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.
  2. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
    • And chime their sounding hammers.1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
    • Chime his childish verse.1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
  4. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
    • The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research.
  5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
    • It shall not keep one settled pace of time,
      In the same tune it shall not always chimea. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Ode Upon Liberty

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Phrases with chimed

Words that rhyme with chimed

Questions about chimed

What is chimed the simple past and past participle of?
Chimed is the simple past and past participle of chime.
How do you pronounce chimed?
Chimed is pronounced /t͡ʃaɪmd/.

Words near chimed in the dictionary

  1. chime up
  2. chime whistle
  3. chime whistles
  4. chime/strobe
  5. chime/strobes
  6. chimed
  7. chimed in
  8. chimed up
  9. Chimei
  10. chimeless
  11. chimelike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chimed (page history and authors); chime (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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