Past tense of duplicate
regular verb
The past tense of duplicate is duplicated. The past participle is also duplicated.
Forms of duplicate
| Base form (V1) | duplicate /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | duplicated |
| Past participle (V3) | duplicated |
| Present participle | duplicating |
| Third person singular | duplicates |
Duplicated in a sentence
- When I paged up or down, the text would sometimes get mangled and duplicated.From the entry page up
- Two significant activities which to contribute to community projects, such as Wikipedia, are to refactor complicated articles into simpler ones, and to refactor duplicated content into reusable templates.From the entry refactor
- Researchers then duplicated this experiment as an app to crowdsource more data.2024 May 14, Clay Drinko, “Lower Your Expectations”, in Psychology Today. From the entry turn out
- Some woodwork and the plaster ceiling medallions have been duplicated to match the originals.2008 September 14, Bill Cunniff, “A stroll through OLD IRVING PARK”, in The Chicago Sun-Times. From the entry woodwork
- El Caballero's metaphorical castration is duplicated in the squire, who is, by analogy with his master, unnosed.1997, Iluminada L. Amat, Doubling in Don Quixote, page 111. From the entry unnosed
Meaning of duplicate
- adjective Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.
- adjective In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players.
- verb To make a copy of.
Questions about the past tense of duplicate
- What is the past tense of duplicate?
- The past tense of duplicate is duplicated.
- What is the past participle of duplicate?
- The past participle of duplicate is duplicated.
- Is duplicate a regular or irregular verb?
- Duplicate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: duplicate (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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