Past tense of rewind
irregular verb
The past tense of rewind is rewound. The past participle is also rewound.
Forms of rewind
| Base form (V1) | rewind /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | rewound /ɹiːˈwaʊnd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | rewound /ɹiːˈwaʊnd/ |
| Present participle | rewinding |
| Third person singular | rewinds |
Rewound in a sentence
- I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.
- If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice. From the entry leader
Meaning of rewind
- verb To wind (something) again.
- verb To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.
- verb To regress the state of playback of a recording.
Verbs like rewind
Questions about the past tense of rewind
- What is the past tense of rewind?
- The past tense of rewind is rewound.
- What is the past participle of rewind?
- The past participle of rewind is rewound.
- Is rewind a regular or irregular verb?
- Rewind is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewind (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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