Past tense of deceive
regular verb
The past tense of deceive is deceived. The past participle is also deceived.
Forms of deceive
| Base form (V1) | deceive /dɪˈsiːv/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | deceived /dɪˈsiːvd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | deceived /dɪˈsiːvd/ |
| Present participle | deceiving |
| Third person singular | deceives /dɪˈsiːvz/ |
Deceived in a sentence
- It feels painful to begin seeing clearly, that you’ve been deceived by the very people and institutions you trusted to guide you.
- The human mind can be easily deceived and convinced of its superiority and self-sufficiency, which is the core of Ideolatry.From the entry ideolatry
- God's last book warns, "by sorcery all the nations were deceived" (Revelation 18:23).2005, Steve Wohlberg, End Time Delusions. From the entry Pottermania
- The duping delight increases when the liars have successfully deceived people with high reputation of being difficult to be fooled.2015, Chee Seng Leow, Saiful Amin Jalun, Maisarah Ahmad, Trapping the Cunning Fox, page 79. From the entry duping delight
- THE author who masqueraded as Helen Demidenko yesterday urged the hoaxer who deceived the respected right-wing journal Quadrant to unmask themself.2009 January 8, Samantha Maiden, “Hoaxer, out yourself: 'Demidenko'”, in The Australian, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2012. From the entry themself
Meaning of deceive
- verb To trick or mislead.
Questions about the past tense of deceive
- What is the past tense of deceive?
- The past tense of deceive is deceived.
- What is the past participle of deceive?
- The past participle of deceive is deceived.
- Is deceive a regular or irregular verb?
- Deceive is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: deceive (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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