masterminded
masterminded is the simple past and past participle of mastermind.
Meaning of mastermind
Verb
mastermind (third-person singular simple present masterminds, present participle masterminding, simple past and past participle masterminded)
- To plan or execute (a project) in the role of mastermind.
- It would later be revealed that the corporation contributed over a quarter of a million dollars to the effort—a whopping 93 percent of the total coffer—and hired a team of media and political experts to mastermind it.2007, Kevin Danaher et al., Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots, →ISBN, page 136
Questions about masterminded
- What is masterminded the simple past and past participle of?
- Masterminded is the simple past and past participle of mastermind.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: masterminded (page history and authors); mastermind (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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