typewrite
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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typewrites,
present (3rd person singular)
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typewrote,
past
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typewritten,
past participle
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typewriting
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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typewritesimple
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typewritessimple
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have typewrittenperfect
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has typewrittenperfect
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am typewritingprogressive
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are typewritingprogressive
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is typewritingprogressive
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have been typewritingperfect progressive
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has been typewritingperfect progressive
Past
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typewrotesimple
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had typewrittenperfect
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was typewritingprogressive
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were typewritingprogressive
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had been typewritingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of typewrite
First recorded in 1885–90; back formation from typewriter
Example Sentences
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It sounds like what a dude with a drawl would say if you asked for the past tense of "typewrite."
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 12, 2017
Supposedly those symbols sum up greatness with an economy and precision which would surely elude an army of sportswriters hitting random keys on a typewrite for an infinite amount of time.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2010
He needs a priest who has been graduated in canon law and theology, who knows French, who can typewrite.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day they met again, and Emily was able to explain everything, for in the meantime she had learned to typewrite.
From Time Magazine Archive
He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
The other way was as absurd as the four-year-old prodigy who typewrites and is rather fond of Greek.
From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley
Writes some sort of stuff which the girl with him typewrites.
From The Cinema Murder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
He typewrites a letter, forges the signature of the erstwhile Count, and awaits events.
From The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Merton, you’ll want a typewriter for your business correspondence, and Miss Blossom typewrites: it is her profession.’
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
"Well no—I hardly think—you see he typewrites his letters, and although I know his writing very well I can't at the moment put my hand on any figures of his."
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison
And G. G. went back to his rooms in great glee and typewrote a story that he had finished as well as he could, and sent it to a magazine.
From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
She typewrote "literature" telling how there was a chance for every man out there, how the big, exhaustless land was eager to yield of its store to all who would come and seek.
From Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell
Ollie gradually typewrote herself to sleep and Prue was not home.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
And when they discovered it, the typewritten document was tweeted out by none other than Ford’s CEO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
Days later, the pair met for a third time where the double agent handed over a six-page typewritten account of covert work for the Soviet Union and how he had come to be recruited.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025
The quantity of typewritten evidence presented at the trials—200,000 affidavits and sworn depositions of over 360 live witnesses, according to the last living signal-corps typist—all needed to be translated into English, French, Russian, and German.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
When I began my career, at the Chicago Sun-Times, I often worked desk shifts, which meant editing typewritten pages of copy that were pulled off a fax machine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
“It’s a forgery, and not a very clever one. The thing is typewritten, and there’s no signature or date. That doesn’t seem quite legitimate, does it?”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
She saved only one, with typewriting on the envelope.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2022
“Thank you … for keeping the sound and fury of typewriting available to all.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
It was recognized as the most advanced typewriting machine yet, and won first prize and a gold medal.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
In 1887, Rudyard Kipling met one of the new breed of typewriting girls while visiting San Francisco.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2013
For a moment I thought, and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for something or some opportunity to aid me, they lit on a great batch of typewriting on the table.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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