processed

English

Etymology tree

English process

Old English -ed

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz

Old English -od

Middle English -ed

English -ed

English processed

From process + -ed.

Adjective as well as verb form of ˈprocess (“to perform a process, etc.”)

Verb form of proˈcess (“to walk in a procession”)

All senses:

processed (comparative more processed, superlative most processed)

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.
- 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 80:
  You know why I stopped eating processed foods? I began to picture the people who might be processing them.
- 2024 September 5, Alice Callahan, “Are Some Ultraprocessed Foods Worse Than Others?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 September 2024:
  Of the 10 ultraprocessed food categories they looked at, two were clearly associated with greater risk: sugar-sweetened drinks (like soda and fruit punch) and processed meat, poultry and fish (like bacon, hot dogs, breaded fish products, chicken sausages and salami sandwiches).

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