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Past tense of cream

regular verb

The past tense of cream is creamed. The past participle is also creamed.

Forms of cream

Base form (V1)cream /kɹiːm/
Past tense (V2)creamed /kɹiːmd/
Past participle (V3)creamed /kɹiːmd/
Present participlecreaming /ˈkɹiːmɪŋ/
Third person singularcreams /kɹiːmz/

Creamed in a sentence

  • We creamed the opposing team!
  • First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed.2026 April 18, Michelle Cottle, David French, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance’s Very Bad Week”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  • The other team was so good! We were creamed, and rightly so.From the entry creamed
  • She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization, page 64. From the entry vendor
  • The recipe here is for eggs Florentine, a classic in which the eggs nestle in a bed of creamed spinach.1998 January 14, Barbara Kafka, “A Way to Poach Eggs to Perfection”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry eggs Florentine

Meaning of cream

  1. noun The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
  2. noun The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
  3. noun The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).

Full definition of cream

Questions about the past tense of cream

What is the past tense of cream?
The past tense of cream is creamed.
What is the past participle of cream?
The past participle of cream is creamed.
Is cream a regular or irregular verb?
Cream is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cream (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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