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Past tense of warm

regular verb

The past tense of warm is warmed. The past participle is also warmed.

Forms of warm

Base form (V1)warm /wɔːm/
Past tense (V2)warmed
Past participle (V3)warmed
Present participlewarming /ˈwɔːmɪŋ/
Third person singularwarms

Warmed in a sentence

  • Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  • It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page xi
  • The symphony warmed up inside the amphitheater while the audience crowded around outside.From the entry amphitheater
  • I couldn't be bothered to cook another meal so I just warmed up yesterday's leftovers.From the entry warm up
  • The butter softened as it warmed up.From the entry soften

Meaning of warm

  1. adjective Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
  2. adjective Friendly and with affection.
  3. adjective Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.

Full definition of warm

Questions about the past tense of warm

What is the past tense of warm?
The past tense of warm is warmed.
What is the past participle of warm?
The past participle of warm is warmed.
Is warm a regular or irregular verb?
Warm is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: warm (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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