Past tense of overfeed
irregular verb
The past tense of overfeed is overfed. The past participle is also overfed.
Forms of overfeed
| Base form (V1) | overfeed |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | overfed |
| Past participle (V3) | overfed |
| Present participle | overfeeding |
| Third person singular | overfeeds |
Overfed in a sentence
- We live in an opulent blandness—overfed, overtended, overentertained, and overly preoccupied with ourselves.2013, Stephen Mansfield, Mansfield's Book of Manly Men. From the entry overentertained
- Ogden Ford was round and blobby and looked overfed.1917, P.G.Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Piccadilly Jim. From the entry Ogden
- We are swollen up like an overfed slug, our breath stinks, the tiniest irritant is magnified ten thousand times, and we cry at the drop of a hat.2014, Becky Rutledge, Miss Becky's Charm School, Citadel Press, →ISBN. From the entry at the drop of a hat
Meaning of overfeed
- verb To feed a person or animal too much.
- verb To eat more than is necessary.
- verb To feed material (e.g. fuel into a burner) from above.
Verbs like overfeed
Questions about the past tense of overfeed
- What is the past tense of overfeed?
- The past tense of overfeed is overfed.
- What is the past participle of overfeed?
- The past participle of overfeed is overfed.
- Is overfeed a regular or irregular verb?
- Overfeed is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overfeed (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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