Past tense of embed
regular verb
The past tense of embed is embedded. The past participle is also embedded.
Forms of embed
| Base form (V1) | embed /ɪmˈbɛd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | embedded /ɪmˈbɛdɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | embedded /ɪmˈbɛdɪd/ |
| Present participle | embedding /ɪmˈbɛdɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | embeds |
Embedded in a sentence
- This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 304
- In the opposite direction a train got away from Huntly, but became embedded in the snow at Insch, where the passengers spent the night.1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139
- The preprocessor expands any embedded macros into source code before it is compiled.From the entry macro
- The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.From the entry reentrant
- Nevertheless, it may be too late—mistakes in Greenlandic already seem to have become embedded in machine translators.2025 September 25, Jacob Judah, “How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral”, in MIT Technology Review…. From the entry Greenlandic
Meaning of embed
- verb To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
- verb To include (something) in surrounding matter.
- verb To encapsulate within another document or data file.
Questions about the past tense of embed
- What is the past tense of embed?
- The past tense of embed is embedded.
- What is the past participle of embed?
- The past participle of embed is embedded.
- Is embed a regular or irregular verb?
- Embed is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: embed (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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