Past tense of woo
regular verb
The past tense of woo is wooed. The past participle is also wooed.
Forms of woo
| Base form (V1) | woo /wuː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | wooed |
| Past participle (V3) | wooed |
| Present participle | wooing |
| Third person singular | woos |
Wooed in a sentence
- There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.From the entry fair
- The chocolatier's gorgeous creations wooed the surrounding neighbourhood.From the entry chocolatier
- Also, it seems to me that if a woman wooed you, you could marry her.2014, David Blixt, The Prince's Doom, Sordelet Ink, →ISBN. From the entry chasmous
- Billy and the rest were wooed through gate after gate, and Billy saw his first Russian.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 71. From the entry ragbag
- For three days Emmanuel Macron was wooed and fêted by Donald Trump, treated to marching bands and banquets.2018 April 27, William Cook, “Are Macron and Merkel playing good cop, bad cop with Trump?”, in The Spectator. From the entry fete
Meaning of woo
- verb To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.
- verb Often of a man, to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with.
- verb To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love.
Questions about the past tense of woo
- What is the past tense of woo?
- The past tense of woo is wooed.
- What is the past participle of woo?
- The past participle of woo is wooed.
- Is woo a regular or irregular verb?
- Woo is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: woo (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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