Past tense of snow
regular verb
The past tense of snow is snowed. The past participle is also snowed.
Forms of snow
| Base form (V1) | snow /snəʊ̯/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | snowed /snəʊd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | snowed /snəʊd/ |
| Present participle | snowing /ˈsnəʊɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | snows /snəʊz/ |
Less standard forms: snew (dialectal), snown (dialectal).
Snowed in a sentence
- She looked snowed, weaved around funny, didn't seem to know much what was going on.1934 July, Raymond Chandler, “Smart-Aleck Kill”, in The Smell of Fear, London: Hamish Hamilton, published December 1965, →OCLC, section...
- We are completely snowed under at work because it is the end of the tax year.From the entry snowed under
- If so, you're being snowed under by snowclones — a category of fill-in-the-blank cliché identified by linguists.2006 July, Mark Peters, “Not Your Father's Cliché”, in Columbia Journalism Review, volume 45, number 2, page 14. From the entry snowclone
- The applications were doubtless snowed under in the maze of official correspondence which avalanched the new government.1961, William Alexander Deans, chapter 9, in Muffled Drumbeats in the Congo, page 95. From the entry avalanche
- “You′ve got Daddy snowed, but Mummy′s got your number.2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, published 2010, unnumbered page. From the entry mummy
Meaning of snow
- noun The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
- noun An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
- noun A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
Questions about the past tense of snow
- What is the past tense of snow?
- The past tense of snow is snowed.
- What is the past participle of snow?
- The past participle of snow is snowed.
- Is snow a regular or irregular verb?
- Snow is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
- Is snew correct?
- snew is marked dialectal in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of snow is snowed.
- Is snown correct?
- snown is marked dialectal in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of snow is snowed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snow (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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