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Past tense of mouth

regular verb

The past tense of mouth is mouthed. The past participle is also mouthed.

Forms of mouth

Base form (V1)mouth /maʊθ/
Past tense (V2)mouthed
Past participle (V3)mouthed
Present participlemouthing
Third person singularmouths /maʊðz/

Mouthed in a sentence

  • He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  • The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
  • Slowly and deliberately with no sound, he mouthed “olive juice.” “What does it look like?” he said.2014, Elle Kay, Where's My Happily Ever After?, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry olive juice
  • I had my window open, and mouthed some obscenity towards him.a. 2007, “Jones” (former police officer; possible pseudonym), quoted in Tom Rennie, Governors, Guns and Money, Lulu.com, page 78. From the entry cut up
  • Jeannie would say out loud, whenever I mouthed a name at her.1984, McCall's, volume 111, page 62. From the entry I know you are but what am I

Meaning of mouth

  1. noun The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  2. noun The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
  3. noun An outlet, aperture or orifice.

Full definition of mouth

Questions about the past tense of mouth

What is the past tense of mouth?
The past tense of mouth is mouthed.
What is the past participle of mouth?
The past participle of mouth is mouthed.
Is mouth a regular or irregular verb?
Mouth is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mouth (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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