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detected

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //dɪˈtɛktɪd//

Having been noticed.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been noticed.

    The detected submarine was tracked by sonar, it was easy once they knew where to look.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of detectsimple past and past participle of detect

    We detected the submarine long before it observed us.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).