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Past tense of renew

regular verb

The past tense of renew is renewed. The past participle is also renewed.

Forms of renew

Base form (V1)renew /ɹɪˈnjuː/
Past tense (V2)renewed
Past participle (V3)renewed
Present participlerenewing
Third person singularrenews

Renewed in a sentence

  • This murder has been a cold case for decades until last year when the new sheriff renewed the investigation.
  • A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.From the entry antebellum
  • The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.From the entry expendable
  • Recent years have seen renewed interest in pragmatic research within the realm of social media platforms.2023, Li, H.X., Liu, J.Y. and Zhang, X.Y., “A Pragmatic Study of Self-Depreciation in Social Media Context”, in Open Access Library Journal. From the entry self-depreciation
  • As we continue to participate with our ritual, our stories are renewed.2022, Dori S. Koehler, “I Am Disney Bound: Costuming as Psycho-Spiritual Practice”, in Priscilla Hobbs, editor, Interpreting and…. From the entry Disneybound

Meaning of renew

  1. verb To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.
  2. verb To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.
  3. verb To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

Full definition of renew

Questions about the past tense of renew

What is the past tense of renew?
The past tense of renew is renewed.
What is the past participle of renew?
The past participle of renew is renewed.
Is renew a regular or irregular verb?
Renew is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: renew (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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