Word.ws English Dictionary

Past tense of shoulder

regular verb

The past tense of shoulder is shouldered. The past participle is also shouldered.

Forms of shoulder

Base form (V1)shoulder /ˈʃəʊldə/
Past tense (V2)shouldered
Past participle (V3)shouldered
Present participleshouldering
Third person singularshoulders /ˈʃoʊldɚz/

Shouldered in a sentence

  • He shouldered me out of my own band.
  • Early in the morning they shouldered light packs, took their rifles, crossed the big draw, and entered the timber where was the deadfall.1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
  • He shouldered his way inside, filthying his T-shirt on the charred wood.2009, Jeffery Deaver, Hell's Kitchen. From the entry filthy
  • Now, women shouldered the entire burden of pounding, storing, and cooking acorns.2004, Brian M. Fagan, Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants (Rowman Altamira; →ISBN, 9780759103740), page…. From the entry balanephagous
  • "Kid's got an awful grouch to-day," said the sailmaker as Migg shouldered by.1918, J.B. Lippincott Company, Clear the Decks!: A Tale of the American Navy To-day, page 168. From the entry fustered

Meaning of shoulder

  1. noun The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
  2. noun The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
  3. noun A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.

Full definition of shoulder

Questions about the past tense of shoulder

What is the past tense of shoulder?
The past tense of shoulder is shouldered.
What is the past participle of shoulder?
The past participle of shoulder is shouldered.
Is shoulder a regular or irregular verb?
Shoulder is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shoulder (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Past tense of shoulder.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/shoulder. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.