Past tense of entail

Forms of entail

Entailed in a sentence

• It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times
• The city council was facing the pitchforks once the public had realized what the new ordinance entailed.From the entry pitchfork
• He was keen as mustard to begin the new job, until he learned what it really entailed.From the entry keen as mustard
• I bequeath my farm to my brother John on condition that he bequeath it to his son Peter. The farm is entailed or burdened by a fideicommissum.From the entry fideicommissum
• PLC processes can be very entailed and question all parts of the organization, and some are light.2016, Anna N Schlegel, Truly Global, page 75. From the entry entailed

Meaning of entail

1. verb To imply, require, or invoke.
2. verb To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
3. verb To appoint hereditary possessor.

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Questions about the past tense of entail

What is the past tense of entail?

The past tense of entail is entailed.

What is the past participle of entail?

The past participle of entail is entailed.

Is entail a regular or irregular verb?

Entail is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.