roamed
roamed is the simple past and past participle of roam.
Meaning of roam
Verb
roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)
- To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
- Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,
My blessing, like a line of light,
Is on the waters day and night,
And like a beacon guards thee home.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 28
- Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,
- To range or wander over.
- Gangs of thugs roamed the streets.
- To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
- To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
- At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development
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- Roamed is the simple past and past participle of roam.
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