plug
noun
a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
plugged
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past participleof plug.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 plug.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
plugnouna piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
Example Sentences
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You don’t know how harshly the previous owner cycled the battery or whether they left it plugged in constantly at 100%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
After falling out of favor, shares of power stocks got plugged in on Tuesday on a big deal between Constellation Energy and Google.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
"We've shown that when tissue-resident macrophages don't have EP2 on their surfaces anymore or when that receptor is plugged up by a drug, this decline doesn't happen."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
They plugged Travis’s core values into an app one of the friends built to assess compatibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
We both glanced at the bright lamp he had just plugged into the end of a big, thick orange extension cord.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
