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Past tense of wedge

regular verb

The past tense of wedge is wedged. The past participle is also wedged.

Forms of wedge

Base form (V1)wedge /wɛd͡ʒ/
Past tense (V2)wedged
Past participle (V3)wedged
Present participlewedging
Third person singularwedges /ˈwɛd͡ʒɪz/

Wedged in a sentence

  • I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
  • The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC...
  • The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.From the entry fluke
  • The server seems to be wedged: it's not even responding to pings.From the entry wedged
  • I wedged my way into the crowd and up to the counter.2017, Jane Tesh, Baby, Take A Bow. From the entry all the way

Meaning of wedge

  1. noun One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
  2. noun A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
  3. noun A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

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Questions about the past tense of wedge

What is the past tense of wedge?
The past tense of wedge is wedged.
What is the past participle of wedge?
The past participle of wedge is wedged.
Is wedge a regular or irregular verb?
Wedge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wedge (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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