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Past tense of toe

regular verb

The past tense of toe is toed. The past participle is also toed.

Forms of toe

Base form (V1)toe /təʊ/
Past tense (V2)toed /təʊd/
Past participle (V3)toed /təʊd/
Present participletoeing
Third person singulartoes /təʊz/

Toed in a sentence

  • Just five minutes later the turnaround was complete when Arshavin toed the ball through to Bendtner, who slotted into the left corner from close range just before half-time.2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC
  • The framers toed the irregular pieces into the sill.
  • Alberto Salazar is one of the most famous athletes to have toed the line at this great race.From the entry toe the line
  • He toed it away from the goalkeeper and was promptly cleaned out by him.2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian. From the entry clean out
  • Although the film definitely toed the line with Black Bolt's crunching cranial collapse.2022 June 29, Brandon Louis, “Loki's Alligator Loki Fight Scene Was Originally More Gory”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on…. From the entry toe the line

Meaning of toe

  1. noun Each of the five digits on the end of the human foot.
  2. noun The equivalent part in an animal.
  3. noun The part of a shoe or sock covering the toe.

Full definition of toe

Questions about the past tense of toe

What is the past tense of toe?
The past tense of toe is toed.
What is the past participle of toe?
The past participle of toe is toed.
Is toe a regular or irregular verb?
Toe is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toe (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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