A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
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Parton punned, adding, “That was such a baaad joke.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
Perhaps the Anthropocene has already become an anthropomeme: punned and pimped into stuplimity, its presence in popular discourse often just a virtue signal that merely mandates the user to proceed with the work of consumption.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2016
He created sentences that punned with double meanings, and arranged elaborate pranks for his sister and friends — these often involved water balloons.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2014
Perhaps he still smarted at the “Joys and Sarris” subtitle of Kael’s 1963 screed; she had punned on a mispronunciation of his name, which rhymes with Harris, not Doris.
From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012
The sinner was punned into repentance by the former; as in the latter, nothing is more usual than to see a hero weeping and quibbling for a dozen lines together.
From Essays and Tales by Henry Morley
