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stemmed

/ˈstɛmd/ verb · British & US
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What does stemmed mean?

verb

past tense of stem, to remove the end part of something, especially a word, to make it shorter.

Example

"The word 'running' is a past participle of the verb 'run', which is stemmed from the word 'runner'."

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