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Definition 2024
-’d
-'d
See also: Appendix:Variations of "d"
English
Suffix
-'d
- (archaic, poetic) -ed
- But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
- Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
- And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
- On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
- Which will be remember'd for a very long time - William Topaz McGonagall - The Tay Bridge Disaster
Usage notes
The contracted form of the past tense marker is used when pronounced as a single consonant (unstressed e). It is archaic as the same suffix is used to contract would or had after a pronoun (see 'd). It is now used in abbreviated verbs or initialisms that function as verbs such as KO'd.