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Past tense of beard

regular verb

The past tense of beard is bearded. The past participle is also bearded.

Forms of beard

Base form (V1)beard /bɪəd/
Past tense (V2)bearded /ˈbɪədɪd/
Past participle (V3)bearded /ˈbɪədɪd/
Present participlebearding
Third person singularbeards

Bearded in a sentence

  • He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)...
  • I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 92
  • The bearded dragon will reach its adult length by one year.2008, Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon, page 20. From the entry beardy
  • Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.1993, Carol Shields, chapter 3, in The Stone Diaries, page 85. From the entry parade
  • In the corner sits a small bald, bearded man beheadphoned—Degas’s Absinthe Drinker in a Walkman.1990, J. B. Miller, My Life in Action Painting, New York, N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry beheadphoned

Meaning of beard

  1. noun Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
  2. noun The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
  3. noun The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

Full definition of beard

Questions about the past tense of beard

What is the past tense of beard?
The past tense of beard is bearded.
What is the past participle of beard?
The past participle of beard is bearded.
Is beard a regular or irregular verb?
Beard is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beard (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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