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 participle | wedging |
| Third person singular | wedges /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
- 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.
- noun A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- noun A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
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.
Source and license
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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