Past tense of barrel
regular verb
The past tense of barrel is barreled or barrelled. The past participle is also barreled or barrelled.
Forms of barrel
| Base form (V1) | barrel /ˈbæɹ(ə)l/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | barreled barrelled |
| Past participle (V3) | barreled barrelled |
| Present participle | barreling |
| Third person singular | barrels |
Barreled and barrelled in a sentence
- Days before Trump’s inauguration, his envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, barrelled into Israel with a demand to meet Netanyahu on Shabbat in order to strongarm him into negotiating a ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza.2025 June 22, Andrew Roth, “What a difference a week makes: Trump falls into the Netanyahu trap”, in The Guardian
- UConn barreled through the West Regional, pummeling Purdue in the semifinals and outmuscling Missouri in the final.2009 March 30, William C. Rhoden, “For Coaches, Recruiting Top Players Can Lead to a Dark Side”, in The New York Times. From the entry outmuscle
Meaning of barrel
- noun A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- noun Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.).
- noun The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
Questions about the past tense of barrel
- What is the past tense of barrel?
- The past tense of barrel is barreled or barrelled.
- What is the past participle of barrel?
- The past participle of barrel is barreled or barrelled.
- Is barrel a regular or irregular verb?
- Barrel is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: barrel (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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