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Past tense of abstract

regular verb

The past tense of abstract is abstracted. The past participle is also abstracted.

Forms of abstract

Base form (V1)abstract /ˈæbˌstɹækt/
Past tense (V2)abstracted /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
Past participle (V3)abstracted /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
Present participleabstracting
Third person singularabstracts

Abstracted in a sentence

  • He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
  • He abstracted out the square root function.
  • The abstracted metadata are represented in the multilevels of primitive metadata, composite metadata, and personalized metadata.2008, Ismail Khalil, Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia, Second Edition, page 723. From the entry multilevels
  • For example, suppose that the quality or element to be abstracted is sixness.1966, Edward Lee Thorndike, Human learning. From the entry sixness
  • Sleep scheduling is a standard approach for balancing energy consumption, which has been abstracted as the domatic partition problem.2014, Zhipeng Cai, Chaokun Wang, Siyao Cheng, Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, →ISBN, page 379. From the entry domatic

Meaning of abstract

  1. noun An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
  2. noun Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
  3. noun Concentrated essence of a product.

Full definition of abstract

Questions about the past tense of abstract

What is the past tense of abstract?
The past tense of abstract is abstracted.
What is the past participle of abstract?
The past participle of abstract is abstracted.
Is abstract a regular or irregular verb?
Abstract is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abstract (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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