Past tense of hole
regular verb
The past tense of hole is holed. The past participle is also holed.
Forms of hole
| Base form (V1) | hole /həʊl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | holed /hoʊld/ |
| Past participle (V3) | holed /hoʊld/ |
| Present participle | holing |
| Third person singular | holes /həʊlz/ |
Holed in a sentence
- Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
- She completely holed the argument.
- It was a lonely, dissociative time in my life, when I stayed holed up in my apartment for weeks on end.From the entry dissociative
- The guerrillas holed up in a small cave.From the entry hole up
- He is believed to be holed up, incommunicado, for the fear of being assassinated by Israel.2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC, archived from the…. From the entry incommunicado
Meaning of hole
- noun A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- noun An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- noun A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
Questions about the past tense of hole
- What is the past tense of hole?
- The past tense of hole is holed.
- What is the past participle of hole?
- The past participle of hole is holed.
- Is hole a regular or irregular verb?
- Hole is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hole (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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