Past tense of dock
regular verb
The past tense of dock is docked. The past participle is also docked.
Forms of dock
| Base form (V1) | dock /dɒk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | docked |
| Past participle (V3) | docked |
| Present participle | docking |
| Third person singular | docks /dɒks/ |
Docked in a sentence
- Her wages were docked by ten dollars.
- The team have been docked six points at Paris 2024 and Priestman received a one-year football ban from world governing body Fifa.2024 July 28, “Priestman 'heartbroken' by drone scandal as funding pulled”, in BBC
- As soon as the battleship docked in Singapore, Roger jumped ship, never to return.From the entry jump ship
- The overnight ferry docked at 10 a.m.From the entry overnight
- Your boat is docked at the pier.From the entry pier
Meaning of dock
- noun Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- noun A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- noun The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
Questions about the past tense of dock
- What is the past tense of dock?
- The past tense of dock is docked.
- What is the past participle of dock?
- The past participle of dock is docked.
- Is dock a regular or irregular verb?
- Dock is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dock (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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