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Past tense of supercharge

regular verb

The past tense of supercharge is supercharged. The past participle is also supercharged.

Forms of supercharge

Base form (V1)supercharge
Past tense (V2)supercharged
Past participle (V3)supercharged
Present participlesupercharging
Third person singularsupercharges

Supercharged in a sentence

  • Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.2014 April 13, Nick Bilton, “Bend it, charge it, dunk it: Graphene, the material of tomorrow”, in The New York Times, archived from the...
  • Instead of three co-equal branches acting as a check on each other, power has become increasingly concentrated over the years in the White House – a trend that is now being supercharged under Mr.2025 February 25, Linda Feldmann, “How Trump skirts checks and balances unlike any modern-day US president”, in The Christian Science...
  • He scoffs at his peers’ dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and even, eventually, human extinction.2023 December 22, Steven Levy, “How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry dystopian
  • Supercharged with honey, garlic and bay, these caramelised hasselbacks are not your everyday carrot.2019 December, Lauren Rose-Smith, editor, Tesco Magazine, London: Cedar Communications Ltd., page 58. From the entry hasselback
  • DeSantis’s political career has become supercharged.2022 November 10, Patricia Mazzei, “With Runaway Win, DeSantis’s Political Career Becomes Supercharged”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry supercharged

Meaning of supercharge

  1. verb To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
  2. verb To make faster or more powerful.
  3. verb To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.

Full definition of supercharge

Questions about the past tense of supercharge

What is the past tense of supercharge?
The past tense of supercharge is supercharged.
What is the past participle of supercharge?
The past participle of supercharge is supercharged.
Is supercharge a regular or irregular verb?
Supercharge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supercharge (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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