Past tense of spew
regular verb
The past tense of spew is spewed. The past participle is also spewed.
Forms of spew
| Base form (V1) | spew /spjuː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | spewed |
| Past participle (V3) | spewed |
| Present participle | spewing |
| Third person singular | spews |
Spewed in a sentence
- After the rev had spewed his load in Daphne's mouth, he reached down and picked up the Holy Bible,2012, F.W. Brooks, The Tithes of March: A Novel by F.W. Brooks, →ISBN
- The cannon boomed, recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud.From the entry boom
- The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words.From the entry foul
- Every third day it spewed out soot balls that left black smears wherever they fell.2008, Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry soot ball
- In the Midwest, a Catholic priest, Father Coughlin, had a Saturday afternoon radio show that spewed out anti-Semitism and fascism.2022, David Gergen, Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made, page 169. From the entry must-listening
Meaning of spew
- verb To eject forcibly and in a stream.
- verb To be forcibly ejected.
- verb To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.
Questions about the past tense of spew
- What is the past tense of spew?
- The past tense of spew is spewed.
- What is the past participle of spew?
- The past participle of spew is spewed.
- Is spew a regular or irregular verb?
- Spew is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spew (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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