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Past tense of shield

regular verb

The past tense of shield is shielded. The past participle is also shielded.

Forms of shield

Base form (V1)shield /ˈʃiːld/
Past tense (V2)shielded
Past participle (V3)shielded
Present participleshielding
Third person singularshields

Shielded in a sentence

  • When it was revealed he had shielded a friend from prosecution when he was the district attorney, he was out of the running for a judicial appointment.From the entry out of the running
  • Altman shielded the holopod in his hands, watched the image that appeared, rotating slowly between his palms.2011, B.K. Evenson, Martyr, →ISBN. From the entry holopod
  • In most cases the event is shielded by a large mass and only telltales arrive on earth.2000, Dany Page, Jorge G. Hirsch, From the Sun to the Great Attractor, page 49. From the entry telltale
  • These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry involute
  • Upon treatment with Digitonin, exogenously added antibodies have no access to intraorganellar proteins as these are shielded by the membrane.2015 October 21, “Peroxisomal Import Reduces the Proapoptotic Activity of Deubiquitinating Enzyme USP2”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry intraorganellar

Meaning of shield

  1. noun A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
  2. noun One who protects or defends.
  3. noun A featherless, flat, fleshy protuberance on the head; a frontal shield.

Full definition of shield

Questions about the past tense of shield

What is the past tense of shield?
The past tense of shield is shielded.
What is the past participle of shield?
The past participle of shield is shielded.
Is shield a regular or irregular verb?
Shield is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shield (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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