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imparted

imparted is the simple past and past participle of impart.

Meaning of impart

Verb

impart (third-person singular simple present imparts, present participle imparting, simple past and past participle imparted)

  1. (transitive) To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property).
    • The sun imparts warmth.
  2. (transitive) To give a part or to share.
    • Expressing well the spirit within thee [Adam] free, / My [God's] image, not imparted to the brute.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC...
  3. (transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).
    • Well may he then to you his cares impart.1662, John Dryden, letter to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  4. (intransitive) To hold a conference or consultation.
  5. (transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
    • Sweet Cossen, what we may not now impart, heere let vs bury it, closely in our hartc. 1587, Anthony Munday, John a Kent and John a Cumber

Words formed from imparted

Questions about imparted

What is imparted the simple past and past participle of?
Imparted is the simple past and past participle of impart.

Words near imparted in the dictionary

  1. impartable
  2. impartance
  3. impartances
  4. impartation
  5. impartations
  6. imparted
  7. imparter
  8. imparters
  9. impartest
  10. imparteth
  11. impartial

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