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Past tense of refill

regular verb

The past tense of refill is refilled. The past participle is also refilled.

Forms of refill

Base form (V1)refill /ˈɹiː.fɪl/
Past tense (V2)refilled
Past participle (V3)refilled
Present participlerefilling
Third person singularrefills

Refilled in a sentence

  • She refilled the jar with peanuts today evening.From the entry jar
  • Water was provided in throwaway plastic bottles, but the more ecologically minded of us refilled our initial bottles from the fountain.From the entry throwaway
  • 'I love yoooo,' she woozed in English, as Sergei, with a static grin, refilled my glass.2000, Marc Llewellyn, Riders to the Midnight Sun: From the Black Sea to the Russian Arctic. From the entry wooze
  • He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said.1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 18. From the entry fine
  • Material received by the BSF for ingest into storage, and the items being picked and refilled, are all processed in an ancillary hall next to the high-density storage area.2013, Michael Heaney, Catriona Jeanne Cannon, Transforming the Bodleian, page 78. From the entry ingest

Meaning of refill

  1. noun An additional helping of food or drink at reduced cost.
  2. noun Refuelling, fuel to refill an empty fuel tank (of a vehicle or machine) or other fuel container.
  3. noun A product intended to replace the used contents of a container or the exhausted supply of a device.

Full definition of refill

Questions about the past tense of refill

What is the past tense of refill?
The past tense of refill is refilled.
What is the past participle of refill?
The past participle of refill is refilled.
Is refill a regular or irregular verb?
Refill is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refill (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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