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Past tense of google

regular verb

The past tense of google is googled. The past participle is also googled.

Forms of google

Base form (V1)google /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
Past tense (V2)googled
Past participle (V3)googled
Present participlegoogling
Third person singulargoogles

Googled in a sentence

  • I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
  • He googled up the recipe you were looking for.From the entry google up
  • Intending to tease out Shona’s know-it-all nature by spouting off some trivia, I googled the Pala d’Oro on my phone.2021, Traci Andrighetti, chapter 9, in Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mysteries; 7), Limoncello Press, →ISBN. From the entry tomato

Meaning of google

  1. verb To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
  2. verb Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
  3. verb Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

Full definition of google

Questions about the past tense of google

What is the past tense of google?
The past tense of google is googled.
What is the past participle of google?
The past participle of google is googled.
Is google a regular or irregular verb?
Google is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: google (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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