Past tense of hug
regular verb
The past tense of hug is hugged. The past participle is also hugged.
Forms of hug
| Base form (V1) | hug /hʌɡ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | hugged /hʌɡd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | hugged /hʌɡd/ |
| Present participle | hugging /ˈhʌɡɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | hugs /hʌɡz/ |
Hugged in a sentence
- She put her feet on a rung and hugged down against her knees, making herself even smaller.2014, Thomas Gifford, The Cavanaugh Quest
- Zhai Tingshen stood at the window upstairs, his black eyes staring intently at the figure that was tightly hugged below.2020, Zhenyinfang, Marital Passion
- Here’s a riddle: What do you call a dollop of cookie dough hugged by fudgy brownie batter?2016, Sheila G. Mains, Sheila G’s Butter & Chocolate: 101 Creative Sweets and Treats Using Brownie Batter, Lanham, Md.: Kyle Books, →ISBN…. From the entry brown sugary
- She simply dropped her face onto his chest and hugged him tight.2012, Kenn Joubert, The Early Years. From the entry liefling
- This helluv hurts.” We grownups burst out laughing, and I hugged her bony adolescent shoulders.2002, Peggy Vincent, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, page 225. From the entry helluv
Meaning of hug
- noun A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, or the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace).
- noun A particular grip in wrestling.
- verb To crouch; to huddle as with cold.
Questions about the past tense of hug
- What is the past tense of hug?
- The past tense of hug is hugged.
- What is the past participle of hug?
- The past participle of hug is hugged.
- Is hug a regular or irregular verb?
- Hug is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hug (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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