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pedalled

pedalled is the simple past and past participle of pedal.

Meaning of pedal

Verb

pedal (third-person singular simple present pedals, present participle (US) pedaling or (UK) pedalling, simple past and past participle (US) pedaled or (UK) pedalled)

  1. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
    • to pedal one's loom
  2. (intransitive) To operate a bicycle.
    • He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.

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Adjective

pedalled (not comparable)

  1. Having, involving, or being operated by pedals.
    • The bicycle is a pedalled vehicle.
    • The Erard pianos used by Chopin were particularly good at sustaining a pedalled note1981, Methuen-Campbell, James, Chopin Playing : from the Composer to the Present Day

Words formed from pedalled

Questions about pedalled

What does pedalled mean?
Pedalled means having, involving, or being operated by pedals.
What is pedalled the simple past and past participle of?
Pedalled is the simple past and past participle of pedal.
What part of speech is pedalled?
Pedalled is an adjective.

Words near pedalled in the dictionary

  1. pedalist
  2. pedalists
  3. pedaliter
  4. pedalities
  5. pedality
  6. pedalled
  7. pedaller
  8. pedallers
  9. pedalling
  10. pedallings
  11. pedally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedalled (page history and authors); pedal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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