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Past tense of meddle

regular verb

The past tense of meddle is meddled. The past participle is also meddled.

Forms of meddle

Base form (V1)meddle /ˈmɛd.əl/
Past tense (V2)meddled
Past participle (V3)meddled
Present participlemeddling
Third person singularmeddles

Meaning of meddle

  1. verb To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
  2. verb To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
  3. verb To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.

Full definition of meddle

Questions about the past tense of meddle

What is the past tense of meddle?
The past tense of meddle is meddled.
What is the past participle of meddle?
The past participle of meddle is meddled.
Is meddle a regular or irregular verb?
Meddle is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meddle (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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