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dog paddled

dog paddled is the simple past and past participle of dog paddle.

Meaning of dog paddle

Verb

dog paddle (third-person singular simple present dog paddles, present participle dog paddling, simple past and past participle dog paddled)

  1. To swim in dog paddle style.
    • He pretended that an alligator was behind him and swam desperately. He passed one spot and then, laboriously, another, dog-paddling.1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 11, in The Yearling

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Questions about dog paddled

What is dog paddled the simple past and past participle of?
Dog paddled is the simple past and past participle of dog paddle.

Words near dog paddled in the dictionary

  1. dog officer
  2. dog officers
  3. dog out
  4. dog pack
  5. dog paddle
  6. dog paddled
  7. dog paddles
  8. dog paddling
  9. dog park
  10. dog parks
  11. dog parsley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog paddled (page history and authors); dog paddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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