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processed
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As an adjective, processed means that has completed a required process.
Meanings of processed
5 meaningsadjective
That has completed a required process.
“The processed data can now be used to generate statistics.”
“The bank returned her processed application by mail.”
Modified through manufacture such as refinement or food processing.
“Processed foods are of dubious nutritional value.”
Subjected to a special process or treatment
“processed cheeses are easy to spread”
Freed from impurities by processing
“refined sugar”
“refined oil”
“to gild refined gold”
Similar: refinedPrepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process
“processed ores”
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of process
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).