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whelped

whelped is the simple past and past participle of whelp.

Meaning of whelp

Verb

whelp (third-person singular simple present whelps, present participle whelping, simple past and past participle whelped)

  1. (ambitransitive, usually, she-wolf) To give birth.
    • The bitch whelped.

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Words formed from whelped

Questions about whelped

What is whelped the simple past and past participle of?
Whelped is the simple past and past participle of whelp.

Words near whelped in the dictionary

  1. whelmings
  2. whelms
  3. whelp
  4. whelpday
  5. whelpdays
  6. whelped
  7. whelpeth
  8. whelphood
  9. whelpie
  10. whelpies
  11. whelping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whelped (page history and authors); whelp (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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