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volunteered

volunteered is the simple past and past participle of volunteer.

Meaning of volunteer

Verb

volunteer (third-person singular simple present volunteers, present participle volunteering, simple past and past participle volunteered)

  1. (intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
  2. (ambitransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
    • to volunteer for doing the dishes
  3. (transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.
    • to volunteer an explanation
  4. (informal, transitive) To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
    • My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
  5. (intransitive) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.

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Questions about volunteered

What is volunteered the simple past and past participle of?
Volunteered is the simple past and past participle of volunteer.

Words near volunteered in the dictionary

  1. voluntatives
  2. volunteer
  3. volunteer snooker
  4. Volunteer State
  5. Volunteer Stater
  6. volunteered
  7. volunteering
  8. volunteerism
  9. volunteerisms
  10. volunteerist
  11. volunteeristic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: volunteered (page history and authors); volunteer (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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