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Past tense of circle

regular verb

The past tense of circle is circled. The past participle is also circled.

Forms of circle

Base form (V1)circle /ˈsɜɹkəl/
Past tense (V2)circled /ˈsɜː(ɹ)kəld/
Past participle (V3)circled /ˈsɜː(ɹ)kəld/
Present participlecircling
Third person singularcircles /ˈsɝkl̩z/

Circled in a sentence

  • The wolves circled the herd of deer.
  • The lightbulb circled the patio in light.
  • TThe Egyptian goose (circled) was spotted in a scoop of pelicans.2023 January 9, Himanshu Kaushik, “Rare sighting”, in The Times of India. From the entry scoop
  • “Sorcery, Magicianry, and Witchcraft.” She circled each word in the light.2023, Jessica K. Schneider, The Shifter’s Oath: Darkling Chronicles, Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry magicianry
  • Skinny militia fighters with canisters on their backs had circled the compound.2016 July, James Abel, Cold Silence (A Joe Rush Novel), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry bonfire

Meaning of circle

  1. noun A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
  2. noun A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
  3. noun The orbit of an astronomical body.

Full definition of circle

Questions about the past tense of circle

What is the past tense of circle?
The past tense of circle is circled.
What is the past participle of circle?
The past participle of circle is circled.
Is circle a regular or irregular verb?
Circle is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: circle (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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