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Past tense of buffer

regular verb

The past tense of buffer is buffered. The past participle is also buffered.

Forms of buffer

Base form (V1)buffer /ˈbʌfə/
Past tense (V2)buffered
Past participle (V3)buffered
Present participlebuffering
Third person singularbuffers

Buffered in a sentence

  • Humans, buffered by cultural and behavioral options, can often tolerate largish changes in climatic conditions.2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry largish
  • Foss thus created a buffered sunwing, an addition outside the thermal envelope of the house.1985, Merilyn Mohr, Sunwings, page 18. From the entry sunwing
  • Another set of tissues (head, skin lesions, lung, liver, splenopancreas, kidney, and intestine) were collected and placed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for histopathologic examination.2015 October 16, “Development of Snake Fungal Disease after Experimental Challenge with Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola in Cottonmouths (…. From the entry splenopancreas
  • For each mouse, a midcoronal section of the left kidney was fixed in Duboscq-Brazil solution for 60 minutes followed by post-fixation in buffered 10% formaldehyde solution until paraffin embedding.2015 August 13, “1-Methyl-D-Tryptophan Potentiates TGF-β-Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in T24 Human Bladder Cancer Cells”, in…. From the entry midcoronal
  • The Type 3 will propel the unit on the return working to Bournemouth Central, where it will be buffered up to the remaining units for the journey back to Waterloo.1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 321. From the entry buffer up

Meaning of buffer

  1. noun A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
  2. noun A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
  3. noun A boxer.

Full definition of buffer

Questions about the past tense of buffer

What is the past tense of buffer?
The past tense of buffer is buffered.
What is the past participle of buffer?
The past participle of buffer is buffered.
Is buffer a regular or irregular verb?
Buffer is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buffer (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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