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Past tense of smudge

regular verb

The past tense of smudge is smudged. The past participle is also smudged.

Forms of smudge

Base form (V1)smudge /smʌd͡ʒ/
Past tense (V2)smudged
Past participle (V3)smudged
Present participlesmudging
Third person singularsmudges

Smudged in a sentence

  • Its misgivings about immigration have smudged some of the liberal lustre it once had.2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany’s fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry luster
  • A faint oystery light smudged the November sky outside the window.2010, Reggie Nadelson, Bloody London, page 215. From the entry oystery
  • Becca's cheeks were pale, her eyes smudged.2006, Lynn Michaels, Marriage by Design, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry whomper
  • It's rather ghostish to have the road suddenly smudged out, and all the world anywhere, nowhere for you to go.1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock. From the entry ghostish
  • The earliest reports were typewritten or stippled by a dot-matrix; then smudged, the result of being whipped too quickly from the mouth of an inkjet.2014 September, Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman, chapter 20, in The Golem of Hollywood, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN…. From the entry dot matrix

Meaning of smudge

  1. noun A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
  2. noun Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
  3. noun A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

Full definition of smudge

Questions about the past tense of smudge

What is the past tense of smudge?
The past tense of smudge is smudged.
What is the past participle of smudge?
The past participle of smudge is smudged.
Is smudge a regular or irregular verb?
Smudge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smudge (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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