Past tense of envisage
regular verb
The past tense of envisage is envisaged. The past participle is also envisaged.
Forms of envisage
| Base form (V1) | envisage /ɪnˈvɪzɪd͡ʒ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | envisaged |
| Past participle (V3) | envisaged |
| Present participle | envisaging |
| Third person singular | envisages |
Envisaged in a sentence
- Traffic at Dover Marine has developed far beyond anything envisaged when the station was built.1959 October, T. W. E. Roche, “Traffic Working at Dover Marine Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 680
- The prototype Liner train vehicles on show at Marylebone were not of the ultimate pattern either, for their wagon platform length is 42½ft, whereas 62½ft as envisaged as standard.1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 262
- Things turned out differently from what I'd envisaged.From the entry differently
- Feminism envisaged as a 'home' insists on commonality before the fact, pushing aside all those who would trouble its domestic idyll.2021, Amia Srinivasan, “Preface”, in The Right to Sex, Bloomsbury. From the entry before the fact
- The sequential metabolic reactions are envisaged as taking place on an RNA organizing structure, which we term a 'metabolosome'.1990, Angus I. Lamond, “Catalytic RNA and the origin of genetic systems”, in Trends in Genetics, volume 6, page 145. From the entry metabolosome
Meaning of envisage
- verb To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
Questions about the past tense of envisage
- What is the past tense of envisage?
- The past tense of envisage is envisaged.
- What is the past participle of envisage?
- The past participle of envisage is envisaged.
- Is envisage a regular or irregular verb?
- Envisage is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
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