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 participle | spawning |
| Third person singular | spawns |
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
- verb To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- verb To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
- verb To bring forth in general.
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.
Source and license
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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