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Past tense of wood

regular verb

The past tense of wood is wooded. The past participle is also wooded.

Forms of wood

Base form (V1)wood /wʊd/
Past tense (V2)wooded /ˈwʊdɪd/
Past participle (V3)wooded /ˈwʊdɪd/
Present participlewooding
Third person singularwoods /wʊdz/

Wooded in a sentence

  • East of Nanjing lies Zijinshan, a wooded hill hosting a collection of historical sights.2012, Damian Harper, “The Yangtze Region”, in National Geographic Traveler: China, Third edition, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic…. From the entry Zijinshan
  • Wagstaff strolled with me along the wooded arm of land shouldering northwards from Bethlehem Bay.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 502. From the entry shoulder
  • Visitors can stroll down to the beach along wooded paths beside streams known as "douits."1989, Stephen Birnbaum, Birnbaum's Great Britain 1990. From the entry douit
  • From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.1973, Edgar B. Jackson, Fall Out to the Right of the Road!, page 321. From the entry typewriter
  • The shore along which they rowed was, at first, wooded to the water line.1932, E. C. Brill, chapter 4, in The Secret Cache, New York: Cupples & Leon, page 30. From the entry water line

Meaning of wood

  1. noun The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
  2. noun The wood from a particular species of tree.
  3. noun A forested or wooded area.

Full definition of wood

Questions about the past tense of wood

What is the past tense of wood?
The past tense of wood is wooded.
What is the past participle of wood?
The past participle of wood is wooded.
Is wood a regular or irregular verb?
Wood is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wood (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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