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Past tense of mow

regular verb

The past tense of mow is mowed. The past participle is mown or mowed.

Forms of mow

Base form (V1)mow /ˈməʊ/
Past tense (V2)mowed /məʊd/
Past participle (V3)mown /məʊn/
mowed /məʊd/
Present participlemowing /ˈməʊ.ɪŋ/
Third person singularmows

Mowed and mown in a sentence

  • He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.
  • Just let me wake up in the morning to the smell of new-mown hay.1969, “Skyline Pigeon”, in Bernie Taupin (lyrics), Elton John (music), Empty Sky, performed by Elton John
  • The regrown weed is almost as big now as before I mowed it down.From the entry regrown
  • The mower leaves the base and maneuvers in a semicontrolled pattern until all the grass is mowed.2009 July 16, Stephen Treffinger, “Cut Your Carbon Footprint, Too”, in New York Times. From the entry semicontrolled
  • Neighbours mowed their green-jube nature strips bordering Agatha′s garden and did not report her to the local council.2005, Maurilia Meehan, The Bad Seed, unnumbered page. From the entry nature strip

Meaning of mow

  1. verb To cut down grass or crops.
  2. verb To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
  3. noun The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).

Full definition of mow

Questions about the past tense of mow

What is the past tense of mow?
The past tense of mow is mowed.
What is the past participle of mow?
The past participle of mow is mown or mowed.
Is mow a regular or irregular verb?
Mow is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mow (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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