sounded

/ˈsaʊndɪd/

verb

  1. 1

    To produce a sound.

    When the horn sounds, take cover.
  2. 2

    To convey an impression by one's sound.

    He sounded good when we last spoke.
  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    To resound.

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    To cause to produce a sound.

    He sounds the instrument.
  7. 7

    (of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.

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

verb

  1. 1

    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.
  2. 2

    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.
  3. 3

    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.
  4. 4

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

    to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra

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