mother
noun
a woman who has borne offspring; a female parent.
mothered
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past participleof mother.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof mother.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
mothernouna woman who has borne offspring; a female parent.
Example Sentences
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Playing a vain, pitch-perfect vision of Los Angeles’ wickedness in “Maps to the Stars,” Julianne Moore mothered so hard she almost separated California right down the San Andreas fault line.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
"She's not eating, being sick, because she mothered her," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
I was mothered, in many ways, by my friend Miss Major, a Black trans woman who lives in Little Rock, Ark., and was at the Stonewall riots.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
Missing being mothered has driven her to cultivate her Spanish skills, after a college counselor hints that “focusing on a new syntax of any kind could become an escape hatch into new habits of mind.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
Davy baked and left cookies on my bed, and she always monitored my health and mothered me with homemade soup when I was sick.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
