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Past tense of hedge

regular verb

The past tense of hedge is hedged. The past participle is also hedged.

Forms of hedge

Base form (V1)hedge /ˈhɛd͡ʒ/
Past tense (V2)hedged /hɛd͡ʒd/
Past participle (V3)hedged /hɛd͡ʒd/
Present participlehedging /ˈhɛd͡ʒɪŋ/
Third person singularhedges /ˈhɛd͡ʒɪz/

Hedged in a sentence

  • He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
  • She was hedged in by her husband's rules.From the entry hedge in
  • It was a promise, but hedged in with so many ifs and buts that I wouldn't rely on it.From the entry hedge in
  • He would drive along above the little town with its flat, straight roads, iron-rooved houses, hedged gardens.1987, Marguerite Poland, Train to Doringbult, London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, pages 89–90. From the entry rooved
  • The densely-foliaged trees hedged a sombre pool, deep and quiet.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 154. From the entry fox

Meaning of hedge

  1. noun A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
  2. noun A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
  3. noun A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.

Full definition of hedge

Questions about the past tense of hedge

What is the past tense of hedge?
The past tense of hedge is hedged.
What is the past participle of hedge?
The past participle of hedge is hedged.
Is hedge a regular or irregular verb?
Hedge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hedge (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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