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Past tense of emphasise

regular verb

The past tense of emphasise is emphasised. The past participle is also emphasised.

Forms of emphasise

Base form (V1)emphasise
Past tense (V2)emphasised
Past participle (V3)emphasised
Present participleemphasising
Third person singularemphasises

Emphasised in a sentence

  • It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.2022 January 12, “Network News: £7.2 million plan to stop flooding and protect South West rail link”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12
  • Geng Dingxiang emphasised its non-abstruse and non-profound aspect of refined subtlety within coarse shallowness.2021, Xuezhi Zhang, History of Chinese Philosophy in the Ming Dynasty, page 392. From the entry non-abstruse
  • In this medieval tradition this science’s ethical-political function was emphasised; thus it became part of speculum-literature.2006, Rhoda Schnur, Perrine Galand-Hallyn, editors, Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress…. From the entry speculum-literature
  • The Dakshinacharas emphasised the male principle while the Vamacharas paid more attention to the female principle.1967, K. Damodaran, Indian Thought: A Critical Survey, page 235. From the entry vamachara
  • The bandages on his hands – cerise and incarnadine, opalescent and viridian – were grotesqueries that only emphasised his stature.2010, Stephen [Reeder] Donaldson, Against All Things Ending, London: Gollancz, →ISBN. From the entry incarnadine

Meaning of emphasise

  1. verb UK standard spelling of emphasize.

Full definition of emphasise

Questions about the past tense of emphasise

What is the past tense of emphasise?
The past tense of emphasise is emphasised.
What is the past participle of emphasise?
The past participle of emphasise is emphasised.
Is emphasise a regular or irregular verb?
Emphasise is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emphasise (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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