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Past tense of pamper

regular verb

The past tense of pamper is pampered. The past participle is also pampered.

Forms of pamper

Base form (V1)pamper /ˈpæm.pə(ɹ)/
Past tense (V2)pampered
Past participle (V3)pampered
Present participlepampering
Third person singularpampers

Pampered in a sentence

  • The rare privilege of being pampered will delight you, but don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched.1996, Leslee Becker, “Correspondence”, in The Sincere Cafe: Stories, Minneapolis, Minn.: Mid-List Press, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry don't count your chickens before they've hatched
  • It’s the name of a small collection of word-forms with particular spellings – four of them: pamper, pampered, pampering, and pampers.2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry lexeme
  • Capulet regrets that Juliet has been “fedled” (“pampered,” RC, s.v.2010, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, →ISBN. From the entry feddle
  • The lioness population of this diamond is especially pampered by these famous lady gods, stimulating the feminine mystique.1973, Owen S. Rachleff, Sky Diamonds: The New Astrology, Hawthorn Books, page 188. From the entry supergoddess
  • The old hotels were buffed and puffed, painted and pampered and neon-ed up, and South Beach blossomed again into a playground for the über-fabulous.2013, Sophia Dembling, 100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go. From the entry uber-fabulous

Meaning of pamper

  1. verb To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
  2. verb To feed luxuriously.
  3. verb To put someone in pampers (a diaper).

Full definition of pamper

Questions about the past tense of pamper

What is the past tense of pamper?
The past tense of pamper is pampered.
What is the past participle of pamper?
The past participle of pamper is pampered.
Is pamper a regular or irregular verb?
Pamper is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pamper (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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