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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His design touch is about to turn the sooted, shut-down BlackHorn into Shelby Jean’s, which will soon be giving off warm and comfy vibes as a restaurant and pub.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2015
Some thought it was the edge of a huge and newly invented Nazi smoke screen blown in from the front, for London and the southeast British coast were also sooted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Squinting in the glare, 1,727 contestants sooted their sights with candles, tightened their slings, commenced firing at 5:50 a. m. over glistening grass.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time we arrived there the snow had become drab and sooted, wet and heavy.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
He had even blanketed and skewered and sooted and greased himself, into the London papers.
From Tom Tiddler's Ground by Charles Dickens
