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spotlighted

spotlighted is the simple past and past participle of spotlight.

Meaning of spotlight

Verb

spotlight (third-person singular simple present spotlights, present participle spotlighting, simple past and past participle spotlighted or spotlit)

  1. (transitive) To illuminate with a spotlight.
    • We spotlight the star, but the supporting cast has all the great lines in this scene.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To draw attention to.
    • The news series served to spotlight corruption.
  3. Synonym of jacklight (“to use a spotlight in hunting animals”).
    Synonyms:
    jacklight

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Questions about spotlighted

What is spotlighted the simple past and past participle of?
Spotlighted is the simple past and past participle of spotlight.

Words near spotlighted in the dictionary

  1. spotlessly
  2. spotlessness
  3. spotlight
  4. spotlight effect
  5. spotlight effects
  6. spotlighted
  7. spotlighter
  8. spotlighters
  9. spotlighting
  10. spotlights
  11. spotlighty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spotlighted (page history and authors); spotlight (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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