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Past tense of bubble

regular verb

The past tense of bubble is bubbled. The past participle is also bubbled.

Forms of bubble

Base form (V1)bubble /ˈbʌbəl/
Past tense (V2)bubbled
Past participle (V3)bubbled
Present participlebubbling
Third person singularbubbles

Bubbled in a sentence

  • Rage bubbled inside him.
  • With some technical improvement, I could see how the process of imitating my work would soon become fast and streamlined, and the many dark potentials bubbled to the forefront of my mind.2022 December 31, Sarah Andersen, “The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It.”, in The New York Times
  • The lava bubbled up and over the rim of the crater.From the entry over
  • Many of the old feelings bubbled up when I met her again.From the entry bubble up
  • The boiling milk bubbled over onto the cooker top.From the entry over

Meaning of bubble

  1. noun A spherically contained volume of air or other gas in a liquid, commonly a soapy liquid.
  2. noun A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
  3. noun Anything resembling a hollow sphere.

Full definition of bubble

Questions about the past tense of bubble

What is the past tense of bubble?
The past tense of bubble is bubbled.
What is the past participle of bubble?
The past participle of bubble is bubbled.
Is bubble a regular or irregular verb?
Bubble is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bubble (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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