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interchanged

interchanged is the simple past and past participle of interchange.

Meaning of interchange

Verb

interchange (third-person singular simple present interchanges, present participle interchanging, simple past and past participle interchanged)

  1. (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
    • to interchange places
    Synonyms:
    exchange
  2. (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
    • I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's regal crown.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    Synonyms:
    exchange
  3. (intransitive) to swap or change places
    • The poem is written in an alef-lamed, bet-nun acrostic form. This is a formula of permutation of letters wherein the first interchanges with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, etc.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 260
  4. (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
    • to interchange cares with pleasures
  5. To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
    • But those 13 miles go through central London, and where the Underground interchanges with Crossrail, its own stations will be boosted and glamorised, especially at Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 274

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Questions about interchanged

What is interchanged the simple past and past participle of?
Interchanged is the simple past and past participle of interchange.

Words near interchanged in the dictionary

  1. interchangeability
  2. interchangeable
  3. interchangeableness
  4. interchangeables
  5. interchangeably
  6. interchanged
  7. interchangement
  8. interchangements
  9. interchanger
  10. interchangers
  11. interchanges

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