Past tense of bone
regular verb
The past tense of bone is boned. The past participle is also boned.
Forms of bone
| Base form (V1) | bone /bəʊn/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | boned /bəʊnd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | boned /bəʊnd/ |
| Present participle | boning /ˈbəʊnɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | bones /bəʊnz/ |
Boned in a sentence
- One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write, page 44
- The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle.1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique, page 73
- Just in her blackety wet skin, she had a magically mesmerizing interplay of boned muscle.2023, Sim Elgin, Life With Beat: The Book Girl. From the entry blackedy
- Bro, for sure you were all boned out, but I wasn't rolling.2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes. From the entry boned
- Like the Maine Coon, the “Weegie” is heavily boned, with a powerful, full chest.1996, Anna Sadler, The longhaired cat, New York: Howell Book House, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry Weegie
Meaning of bone
- noun A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- noun Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- noun A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
Questions about the past tense of bone
- What is the past tense of bone?
- The past tense of bone is boned.
- What is the past participle of bone?
- The past participle of bone is boned.
- Is bone a regular or irregular verb?
- Bone is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bone (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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