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experimented

experimented is the simple past and past participle of experiment.

Meaning of experiment

Verb

experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)

  1. (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
    • We're going to experiment on rats.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
    • The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
    • Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.1481, The Mirrour of the World, William Caxton, 1.5.22
  4. (intransitive, often) To try something to observe the results.
    • I want to experiment with psychedelics.

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Words formed from experimented

Questions about experimented

What is experimented the simple past and past participle of?
Experimented is the simple past and past participle of experiment.

Words near experimented in the dictionary

  1. experimentational
  2. experimentations
  3. experimentative
  4. experimentator
  5. experimentators
  6. experimented
  7. experimentee
  8. experimentees
  9. experimenter
  10. experimenters
  11. experimenting

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