Past tense of seed
regular verb
The past tense of seed is seeded. The past participle is also seeded.
Forms of seed
| Base form (V1) | seed /siːd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | seeded /ˈsidɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | seeded /ˈsidɪd/ |
| Present participle | seeding /ˈsiːdɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | seeds /siːdz/ |
Seeded in a sentence
- I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
- We seeded the meadow with ryegrass to provide better forage.From the entry ryegrass
- One of their successful creations, the angara, were seeded on multiple worlds in the Heleus Cluster.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Remnant: Creators Codex entry. From the entry wide-scale
- Although open source software seeded this community, it suffered from a lack of hardware.2016, Continuing Innovation in Information Technology: Workshop Report, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry lablet
Meaning of seed
- noun Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- noun A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- noun Any small seed-like fruit.
Questions about the past tense of seed
- What is the past tense of seed?
- The past tense of seed is seeded.
- What is the past participle of seed?
- The past participle of seed is seeded.
- Is seed a regular or irregular verb?
- Seed is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: seed (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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