Past tense of claw
regular verb
The past tense of claw is clawed. The past participle is also clawed.
Forms of claw
| Base form (V1) | claw /klɔ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | clawed /klɔːd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | clawed /klɔːd/ |
| Present participle | clawing |
| Third person singular | claws /klɔːz/ |
Clawed in a sentence
- When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face.2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times
- The tiger clawed off her face.From the entry claw off
- The other lunged to the side of the second and clamped one clawed hand around its muzzle.2017 April, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 10, in Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent, New…. From the entry ruff
- He held out a severely mangled hand, with clawed, yellowish nails.2012, Andrew Vachss, Blackjack: A Cross Novel. From the entry toadish
- Ravages of ‘demon claws and teeth’; corpses ‘mangled, chewed and clawed’.1975, Angela Carter, “The Hidden Child”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 546. From the entry necrophagic
Meaning of claw
- noun A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- noun A foot equipped with such.
- noun The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
Questions about the past tense of claw
- What is the past tense of claw?
- The past tense of claw is clawed.
- What is the past participle of claw?
- The past participle of claw is clawed.
- Is claw a regular or irregular verb?
- Claw is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: claw (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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