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Past tense of wind

irregular verb

The past tense of wind is wound or winded. The past participle is also wound or winded.

Forms of wind

Base form (V1)wind /ˈwɪnd/
Past tense (V2)wound /ˈwuːnd/
winded /ˈwɪndɪd/
Past participle (V3)wound /ˈwuːnd/
winded /ˈwɪndɪd/
Present participlewinding /ˈwɪndɪŋ/
Third person singularwinds /wɪndz/

Past tense of wind by meaning

  1. to turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.: wound or winded
  2. to blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.: winded

Wound and winded in a sentence

  • Something higher must lie at the back of that eager response to pack-music and winded horn — something born of the smell of the good earth1913, Edith Constance Holme, Crump Folk Going Home, page 136
  • The boxer was winded during round two.
  • Blood started to spurt out of his hand due to the wound.From the entry blood
  • It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.From the entry wound
  • They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.From the entry pen

Meaning of wind

  1. noun Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
  2. noun Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
  3. noun The ability to breathe easily.

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Questions about the past tense of wind

What is the past tense of wind?
The past tense of wind is wound or winded.
What is the past participle of wind?
The past participle of wind is wound or winded.
Is wind a regular or irregular verb?
Wind is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wind (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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