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Sounded

Sound \Sound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Sounding.] [F. sonder; cf. AS. sundgyrd a sounding rod, sundline a sounding line (see Sound a narrow passage of water).]

  1. To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.

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

    I was in jest, And by that offer meant to sound your breast.
    --Dryden.

    I've sounded my Numidians man by man.
    --Addison.

  3. (Med.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.

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sounded

vb. (en-past of: sound)

WordNet
sounded

adj. (of water depth) measured by a line and plumb [syn: plumbed]

Usage examples of "sounded".

The telephone console sounded during this interval of anxious scanning.

Berthas had sounded, the exaggerated WHUMP of incendiary tonnage, way larger than life.

It had only been nine in the morning but the stereo was on, both TVs, and it sounded like an orgy was going on in the basement playroom.

At first it sounded uncannily like the whistle of a teakettle on a hot burner.

The town clock, which had chimed off the hours of his imprisonment here, had not tolled since nine this morning, when the little tune that preceded the striking had sounded draggy and weird, like a tune played underwater by a drowned music box.

Trask, had pointed out that most of the guards sounded pretty snotty themselves.

And against that background of sound, the barking dog sounded like the most natural thing in the world.

Stu answers, and he sounded almost hysterical, but keeping it under a tight rein.

The man sounded kind of surprised, because he said the airline personnel had been talking about that.

It sounded like Jim Rice connecting solidly with a high, hard fastball.

Mother Abagail said, but her voice sounded oddly uncertain in her own ears.

The girl singing lead sounded sixteen years old, pallid, blond, and plain.

She sounded as if she might be singing to a picture that spent most of its time buried in a dresser drawer, a picture that was taken out only late at night when everyone else in the house was asleep.

Stu thought they sounded like boys who had just discovered sex, were comparing notes, and were excited to find that all reports put the receptacle in approximately the same place.

The baying of the wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing round on us from every side.