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Past tense of twinge

regular verb

The past tense of twinge is twinged. The past participle is also twinged.

Forms of twinge

Base form (V1)twinge /twɪnd͡ʒ/
Past tense (V2)twinged
Past participle (V3)twinged
Present participletwingeing
Third person singulartwinges

Twinged in a sentence

  • His old war wound twinged sharply.From the entry sharply

Meaning of twinge

  1. verb To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch.
  2. verb To pull and twist.
  3. verb To pull and twist (someone or something); to pinch, to tweak, to twitch, to wring.

Full definition of twinge

Questions about the past tense of twinge

What is the past tense of twinge?
The past tense of twinge is twinged.
What is the past participle of twinge?
The past participle of twinge is twinged.
Is twinge a regular or irregular verb?
Twinge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: twinge (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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