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Past tense of diagnose

regular verb

The past tense of diagnose is diagnosed. The past participle is also diagnosed.

Forms of diagnose

Base form (V1)diagnose /ˈdʌɪ.əɡˌnəʊz/
Past tense (V2)diagnosed
Past participle (V3)diagnosed
Present participlediagnosing
Third person singulardiagnoses /daɪəɡˈnəʊsiz/

Diagnosed in a sentence

  • Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.From the entry than
  • The patient was diagnosed after displaying both aerophobia and acute hydrophobia.From the entry aerophobia
  • Most of the pseudopatients were falsely diagnosed with mental disorders.From the entry pseudopatient
  • The patient was diagnosed with argininosuccinic aciduria.From the entry argininosuccinic
  • He was diagnosed with subcortical dementia.From the entry subcortical

Meaning of diagnose

  1. verb To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
  2. verb To determine the cause of a problem.

Full definition of diagnose

Questions about the past tense of diagnose

What is the past tense of diagnose?
The past tense of diagnose is diagnosed.
What is the past participle of diagnose?
The past participle of diagnose is diagnosed.
Is diagnose a regular or irregular verb?
Diagnose is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: diagnose (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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