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Past tense of recharge

regular verb

The past tense of recharge is recharged. The past participle is also recharged.

Forms of recharge

Base form (V1)recharge /ɹiːˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Past tense (V2)recharged
Past participle (V3)recharged
Present participlerecharging
Third person singularrecharges

Recharged in a sentence

  • Customer was recharged for doing same brake work (in November) that had been done in September.1977, United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Diagnostic Motor Vehicle Inspection Demonstration Projects, Program...
  • In Spain, whenever I recharged, I had descended into a dark blanket of nothingness.2014, Matt Haig, Echo Boy, page 247. From the entry unsleep
  • The water in the Mesilla Bolson, which is recharged by the river above it, is part of a major lawsuit between Texas and New Mexico. . . .2015 November 2, David Crowder, “El Paso’s low water rates to rise”, in El Paso Inc., retrieved 21 Nov 2015. From the entry bolson
  • The guns are constantly being recharged tonight, and you should've called in sick back then!" "IT'S HARD TO CALL IN SICK WHEN ALL YOU CAN SAY IS 'MEOW'!"2005 December 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Dec 2, 2005. From the entry call in sick
  • Provision is made for causing the switching threshold to vary directly with changes in downlevel voltage, whereby the line is recharged independent of variations in downlevel line voltage.1975, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin - Volume 18, Issue 2. From the entry downlevel

Meaning of recharge

  1. verb To charge an electric battery after its power has been consumed.
  2. verb To invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time.
  3. verb To reload a gun with ammunition.

Full definition of recharge

Questions about the past tense of recharge

What is the past tense of recharge?
The past tense of recharge is recharged.
What is the past participle of recharge?
The past participle of recharge is recharged.
Is recharge a regular or irregular verb?
Recharge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recharge (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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