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/ˈsaʊndɪd/

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Other words for sounded include echo, reecho and resonate.

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Sounded as an Adjective

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Sounded as a Verb

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simple past and past participle of sound

2

To produce a sound.

When the horn sounds, take cover.

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3

To convey an impression by one's sound.

He sounded good when we last spoke.

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To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.

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To resound.

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(often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.

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To cause to produce a sound.

He sounds the instrument.

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(of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.

The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.

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9

Dive downwards, used of a whale.

The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.

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To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.

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Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.

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To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra

Sounded in a Sentence

When the horn sounds, take cover.

He sounded good when we last spoke.

He sounds the instrument.

The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.

The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.

When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.

Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.

to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra

Word Forms & Grammar

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Words That Rhyme With Sounded

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Origin of Sounded

Doublet of sonata.

Sounded in Brief

Part of speechadjective, verb
Pronunciation/ˈsaʊndɪd/
MeaningThis term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}
Synonymsecho, reecho and resonate

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