Past tense of body
regular verb
The past tense of body is bodied. The past participle is also bodied.
Forms of body
| Base form (V1) | body /ˈbɒdi/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | bodied /ˈbɑdid/ |
| Past participle (V3) | bodied /ˈbɑdid/ |
| Present participle | bodying |
| Third person singular | bodies /ˈbɒd.iz/ |
Bodied in a sentence
- I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.2023, “Gaming at 24”, in hyperx (comic)
- A light bodied brew with fresh key lime flavour and a subtle note of graham cracker-y pie crust.2023 May 29, “Jasper Brewing, Banff Ave Brewing & Campio Brewing Release Seasonal Beers”, in Canadian Beer News, archived from the…. From the entry graham cracker-y
- Why do you prefer full‐bodied, smooth wines?2015, David A. Winter, Nick Reed, The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology. From the entry flavorsome
- Zoigl may be top or bottom fermented, but is is usually amber to dark brown, full bodied, unfiltered, dry, and served on draft.1996, Stephen Snyder, The Beer Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Finest, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry Zoigl
- Banastre Pryce Llyod recommended that indentured labourers should be classified into 'able bodied' and 'non-able bodied' and that the rate of wages should be fixed accordingly for each group.2022, Esme Cleall, Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015. From the entry non-able bodied
Meaning of body
- noun The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- noun The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- noun A corpse.
Questions about the past tense of body
- What is the past tense of body?
- The past tense of body is bodied.
- What is the past participle of body?
- The past participle of body is bodied.
- Is body a regular or irregular verb?
- Body is a regular verb: its past tense changes -y to -ied.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: body (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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