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Past tense of concoct

regular verb

The past tense of concoct is concocted. The past participle is also concocted.

Forms of concoct

Base form (V1)concoct /kənˈkɒkt/
Past tense (V2)concocted
Past participle (V3)concocted
Present participleconcocting
Third person singularconcocts

Concocted in a sentence

  • John told her about his dissertation, about the equations he had concocted from a gedanken experiment.2005 Aug, Eugene Mirabelli, “The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 109, number 2, page 143. From the entry gedankenexperiment
  • FSM was concocted in June by Bobby Henderson, a recent college graduate with a degree in physics.2005 October 2, Jeff Jacoby, “The timeless truth of creation”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2012. From the entry FSM
  • "Nonsensification": Senseless associations are concocted as a strategy of confusion, especially by compulsives.1959, J. A. M. Meerloo, “Psychoanalysis as an Experiment in Communication”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 46, number 1, page 80. From the entry nonsensification
  • He was not surprised to learn that his mother had concocted the plan to get the whole family together again.2002, Duane Ramsey, Reunion in the Rockies, page 264. From the entry conspiracy
  • Laudanum, a derivative of opium, was the name given to a secret remedy concocted by the occultist Paracelsus, in the sixteenth century.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 171. From the entry laudanum

Meaning of concoct

  1. verb To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
  2. verb To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
  3. verb To digest.

Full definition of concoct

Questions about the past tense of concoct

What is the past tense of concoct?
The past tense of concoct is concocted.
What is the past participle of concoct?
The past participle of concoct is concocted.
Is concoct a regular or irregular verb?
Concoct is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: concoct (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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