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Past tense of spawn

regular verb

The past tense of spawn is spawned. The past participle is also spawned.

Forms of spawn

Base form (V1)spawn /spɔːn/
Past tense (V2)spawned
Past participle (V3)spawned
Present participlespawning
Third person singularspawns

Spawned in a sentence

  • Weather Underground, a covert organization that spawned countless other would-be revolutionary cadres - the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the Black Liberation Army, the May 19 Communist Organization each of which2005, McSweeney's Pub., LLC (publisher), The Believer, volume 3, numbers 1-5, page 26
  • Where did he come from? Bro just spawned in.
  • Millennials' love for their pups is so intense, it's spawned its own language.2019 December, Stephanie Wilson, “Woo-Woo Woofers”, in Sensi Magazine, page 37. From the entry heckin'
  • Obviously based on the concept of superstition, hyperstition is distinguished by being predominantly digitally spawned and proliferated.2005, Dave Szulborski, This is Not a Game: A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming, Incunabula, →ISBN. From the entry hyperstition
  • A physician says the Nuclear Age has spawned a new phobia—nucleomitophobia, or fear of the atom.1961 November 19, Cedar Rapids Gazette, page 122. From the entry nucleomitophobia

Meaning of spawn

  1. verb To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
  2. verb To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
  3. verb To bring forth in general.

Full definition of spawn

Questions about the past tense of spawn

What is the past tense of spawn?
The past tense of spawn is spawned.
What is the past participle of spawn?
The past participle of spawn is spawned.
Is spawn a regular or irregular verb?
Spawn is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spawn (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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