Past tense of crow
regular verb
The past tense of crow is crowed. The past participle is also crowed.
Forms of crow
| Base form (V1) | crow /kɹəʊ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | crowed /kɹəʊd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | crowed /kɹəʊd/ |
| Present participle | crowing /ˈkɹəʊɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | crows /kɹəʊz/ |
Past tense of crow by meaning
- to use a crowbar, wedge, or other implement to attempt to open a surface by leveraging...: crowed
- to make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner...: crowed or crew
Crowed in a sentence
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:crowed over.From the entry crowed over
- Next day he corned Chum Frink and crowed, "Well, old son, I finished it last evening!1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry lam out
- Chanticleers in the town crowed roupily and ruefully for months thereafter.1907, Neil Munro, chapter XXXI, in Bud: A Novel, Harper & Brothers, page 297. From the entry roupily
- “We’ve started now,” the hot-heads crowed.1942, Thomas Armstrong, chapter 3, in Dover Harbour, London: Collins […], →OCLC, section 4, page 528. From the entry don't count your chickens
- He cackled confidentially, like he knew more than he was telling, then threw his head back and crowed once and strutted in a full circle like a rumpled old rooster.2006, Jack Dawson, Reflections in a Curved Glass, page 31. From the entry full circle
Meaning of crow
- noun A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
- noun Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
- noun A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
Questions about the past tense of crow
- What is the past tense of crow?
- The past tense of crow is crowed.
- What is the past participle of crow?
- The past participle of crow is crowed.
- Is crow a regular or irregular verb?
- Crow is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crow (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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