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-d

suffix

  1. (possession/attribution suffix)
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Wiktionary

suffix

  1. Alternative form of -ed now only standard with words which end in -e, but historically permissable in all the same places as -ed.

    bone → boned, pirouette → pirouetted, learn → learnd

  2. An empty suffix, perhaps derived from the past-tense suffix above, added in some dialects to the present tense forms of some words which then add an additional -ed in the past tense.

    damn → damnd (→ damnded), drown → drownd (→ drownded)

  3. Marks ordinals written in digits when the final term of the spelled number is "second" or "third"

    2d grade; 23d century