Past tense of duck
regular verb
The past tense of duck is ducked. The past participle is also ducked.
Forms of duck
| Base form (V1) | duck /dʌk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | ducked /dʌkt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | ducked /dʌkt/ |
| Present participle | ducking /ˈdʌkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | ducks /dʌks/ |
Ducked in a sentence
- Rimmer ducked his body low into his chair, so just his head remained above the table top, and peered past the backs of the examinees in front of him, waiting for the adjudicator to make his move.1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
- That was the moment, but Senate Republicans ducked it.2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- Gage had gone foetal: knees raised, chin ducked , arms shielding his head.2017, Ben Sanders, By Any Means. From the entry fetal
- "He ducked the ball and it hit the crinkle-patterned glass, which cracked all over."2013, Kevin James, Diary of A Village Boy: The Memoirs of an Ordinary Man and the Times He .... From the entry crinkle-patterned
- One of the AB Pacifists reached out to grab Sera’s arm, and she ducked.2013, James Dashner, “The Kick that Ended a Friendship”, in A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring; 1), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN. From the entry earwaxy
Meaning of duck
- verb To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- verb To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- verb To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
Questions about the past tense of duck
- What is the past tense of duck?
- The past tense of duck is ducked.
- What is the past participle of duck?
- The past participle of duck is ducked.
- Is duck a regular or irregular verb?
- Duck is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: duck (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.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of duck.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/duck. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.