Past tense of overhaul
regular verb
The past tense of overhaul is overhauled. The past participle is also overhauled.
Forms of overhaul
| Base form (V1) | overhaul /ˈəʊvəˌhɔːl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | overhauled |
| Past participle (V3) | overhauled |
| Present participle | overhauling |
| Third person singular | overhauls |
Overhauled in a sentence
- While the engines are dealt with in the diesel shop, their parent locomotives are overhauled in the erecting shop.1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 159
- An overhauled design for a 150-year-old tool used in postpartum vaginal tearing.2021 June 8, Jacqui Palumbo, “These innovative designs are tackling taboo health issues for women”, in CNN
- The freeware version will be supplanted by an overhauled for-pay release.From the entry for-pay
- We remember that Kevin Corbett said last month that nontransparent ’crazed’ windows would be replaced when rail cars were overhauled.2024 11, David Peter Alan, quoting Sally Jane Gellert, “Multilevel Cards to Get Their Trucks Overhauled, but What About the Windows?”, in…. From the entry nontransparent
- Far from having been overhauled, the Greek state has received only a cosmetic makeover, a managerial window dressing.2022 August 22, Alexander Clapp, “The Rot at the Heart of Greece Is Now Clear for Everyone to See”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry window dressing
Meaning of overhaul
- noun A major repair, renovation, or revision.
- noun The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite.
- verb To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
Questions about the past tense of overhaul
- What is the past tense of overhaul?
- The past tense of overhaul is overhauled.
- What is the past participle of overhaul?
- The past participle of overhaul is overhauled.
- Is overhaul a regular or irregular verb?
- Overhaul is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overhaul (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.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of overhaul.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/overhaul. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.