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 participle | emphasising |
| Third person singular | emphasises |
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
- verb UK standard spelling of emphasize.
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.
Source and license
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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