Past tense of feed
irregular verb
The past tense of feed is fed. The past participle is also fed.
Forms of feed
| Base form (V1) | feed /fiːd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | fed /ˈfɛd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | fed /ˈfɛd/ |
| Present participle | feeding /ˈfiːdɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | feeds |
Fed in a sentence
- A young female farm worker was fed alive to a herd of pigs after allegedly being brutally raped and beaten by a colleague with a grudge against her father.2024 November 28, Taryn Kaur Pedler & Will Stewart, “Farm murder horror as girl, 17, is fed to pigs while still ALIVE 'after being beaten...
- The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.From the entry pig
- Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.From the entry flow
- I'm fed up with your constant antics in class. Please behave yourself!From the entry antic
- Oh chuff off! I'm so chuffing fed up with all of the spam posts on my timeline.From the entry chuff
Meaning of feed
- verb To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- verb To eat (usually of animals).
- verb To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Verbs like feed
Questions about the past tense of feed
- What is the past tense of feed?
- The past tense of feed is fed.
- What is the past participle of feed?
- The past participle of feed is fed.
- Is feed a regular or irregular verb?
- Feed is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: feed (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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