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logged

logged is the simple past and past participle of log.

Meaning of log

Verb (1)

log (third-person singular simple present logs, present participle logging, simple past and past participle logged)

  1. (transitive) To cut trees into logs.
  2. (transitive) To cut down (trees).
    • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of...2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
  3. (intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.

Verb (2)

log (third-person singular simple present logs, present participle logging, simple past and past participle logged)

  1. (transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.
    • to log the miles travelled by a ship
  2. (transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook.
  3. (transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by a chip log.

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Words formed from logged

Phrases with logged

Questions about logged

What is logged the simple past and past participle of?
Logged is the simple past and past participle of log.

Words near logged in the dictionary

  1. loggan
  2. loggans
  3. loggat
  4. loggats
  5. logge
  6. logged
  7. logged in
  8. logged into
  9. logged off
  10. logged on
  11. logged onto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: logged (page history and authors); log (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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