Past tense of shutter
regular verb
The past tense of shutter is shuttered. The past participle is also shuttered.
Forms of shutter
| Base form (V1) | shutter /ˈʃʌtəː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | shuttered |
| Past participle (V3) | shuttered |
| Present participle | shuttering |
| Third person singular | shutters |
Shuttered in a sentence
- This company was shuttered in 2002.
- After some additional legal wrangling, Morse, exhausted and out of money, withdrew his remaining appeals and shuttered the production in April 1883.2015, Henry Bial, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage, page 3
- The city has reclaimed its riverfront, transforming it from shuttered industrial husks into commercial-and-residential mixed-use real estate with substantial market value.From the entry riverfront
- The cafés selling baklava and tulumba on Sweet Corner are shuttered and padlocked.2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 149. From the entry tulumba
- Yet for most of the year the bungalows were empty, with doors padlocked and windows shuttered.1960, Shirley L[ease] Arora, What Then, Raman?, Chicago, I.L.: Follett Publishing Company, page 16. From the entry merkin
Meaning of shutter
- noun One who shuts or closes something.
- noun Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
- noun A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.
Questions about the past tense of shutter
- What is the past tense of shutter?
- The past tense of shutter is shuttered.
- What is the past participle of shutter?
- The past participle of shutter is shuttered.
- Is shutter a regular or irregular verb?
- Shutter is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shutter (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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