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Past tense of tinge

regular verb

The past tense of tinge is tinged. The past participle is also tinged.

Forms of tinge

Base form (V1)tinge /tɪnd͡ʒ/
Past tense (V2)tinged /tɪnd͡ʒd/
Past participle (V3)tinged /tɪnd͡ʒd/
Present participletinging /tɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
Third person singulartinges

Tinged in a sentence

  • When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.From the entry ting
  • It can be tinged with tragedy or just inexplicably sad in its ordinariness.2022 November 1, Jake Pitre, “The Eerie Comfort of Liminal Spaces”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry liminal space
  • Other-worldliness tinged it all and every little while my spirit seemed to dissociate itself.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry anthroposophy
  • Other-worldliness tinged it all and every little while my spirit seemed to disassociate itself.1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry other-worldliness
  • They are about as deeply tinged with good-will as are the so-called Protestants taken as a whole.1921 July 21, L.C. Barnes, “Antidotes for Romaphobia”, in The Watchman-Examiner: A National Baptist Paper, volume 9, number 29, page 919. From the entry Romaphobia

Meaning of tinge

  1. noun A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.
  2. noun The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.
  3. noun A draper's or clothier's markup.

Full definition of tinge

Questions about the past tense of tinge

What is the past tense of tinge?
The past tense of tinge is tinged.
What is the past participle of tinge?
The past participle of tinge is tinged.
Is tinge a regular or irregular verb?
Tinge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tinge (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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