Past tense of contest
regular verb
The past tense of contest is contested. The past participle is also contested.
Forms of contest
| Base form (V1) | contest /ˈkɒn.tɛst/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | contested |
| Past participle (V3) | contested |
| Present participle | contesting |
| Third person singular | contests |
Contested in a sentence
- The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
- The troops contested every inch of ground.
- The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government.From the entry sanction
- Until then, China had not contested Japan’s sovereignty for over 70 years.2015 February 1, Sumio Kusaka, “Japan and Its Territorial Claims”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2015…. From the entry Senkaku Islands
- Yet the wider significance of Ice-T’s pop-cultural prominence is hotly contested.2014, Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner, “Introduction: “It’s got to feel real but not be real” (Ice-T)”, in Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural…. From the entry pop-cultural
Meaning of contest
- noun Controversy; debate.
- noun Struggle for superiority; combat.
- noun A competition.
Questions about the past tense of contest
- What is the past tense of contest?
- The past tense of contest is contested.
- What is the past participle of contest?
- The past participle of contest is contested.
- Is contest a regular or irregular verb?
- Contest is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: contest (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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