Past tense of digress
regular verb
The past tense of digress is digressed. The past participle is also digressed.
Forms of digress
| Base form (V1) | digress /daɪˈɡɹɛs/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | digressed |
| Past participle (V3) | digressed |
| Present participle | digressing |
| Third person singular | digresses |
Meaning of digress
- verb To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
- verb To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
Questions about the past tense of digress
- What is the past tense of digress?
- The past tense of digress is digressed.
- What is the past participle of digress?
- The past participle of digress is digressed.
- Is digress a regular or irregular verb?
- Digress is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: digress (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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