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Past tense of appeal

regular verb

The past tense of appeal is appealed. The past participle is also appealed.

Forms of appeal

Base form (V1)appeal /əˈpiːl/
Past tense (V2)appealed /əˈpiːld/
Past participle (V3)appealed /əˈpiːld/
Present participleappealing /əˈpiː.lɪŋ/
Third person singularappeals /əˈpilz/

Appealed in a sentence

  • The plaintiff appealed the decision to the appellate court.
  • She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.From the entry fine
  • He appealed to the court above.From the entry above
  • The Chocolate Factory has appealed the Epic verdict and also plans to challenge the DoJ's victory.2024 August 15, Thomas Claburn, “Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious”, in The Register. From the entry Chocolate Factory
  • Hypervalues are appealed to in defence of these secondary values, but they themselves have no further appeal.2016, Oscar Tranvag, Oddgeir Synnes, Wilfred McSherry, Arthur W. Frank, Ann Gallagher, Stories of Dignity Within Healthcare, M & K Update…. From the entry hypervalue

Meaning of appeal

  1. noun An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
  2. noun The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
  3. noun A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.

Full definition of appeal

Questions about the past tense of appeal

What is the past tense of appeal?
The past tense of appeal is appealed.
What is the past participle of appeal?
The past participle of appeal is appealed.
Is appeal a regular or irregular verb?
Appeal is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: appeal (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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