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Past tense of epitomize

regular verb

The past tense of epitomize is epitomized. The past participle is also epitomized.

Forms of epitomize

Base form (V1)epitomize /əˈpɪt.əˌmaɪz/
Past tense (V2)epitomized
Past participle (V3)epitomized
Present participleepitomizing
Third person singularepitomizes

Epitomized in a sentence

  • In the view of the formalists, Italian futurism epitomized all that poetics should work against.2016, Nancy Perloff, Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art, The Getty Research Institute, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry verbivocovisual
  • The country has careened through nearly a century of instability, marred by military coups and spectacular financial collapses epitomized by triple-digit inflation.2026 May 28, Emma Bubola, Ryan Mac, “Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World”, in The New York Times. From the entry careen
  • I suppose what he is worried about is epitomized by a conversation that I had ten years ago with the Executive Vice President of a utility that was going nuclear.2013, George G. Berg, Measurement of Risks, →ISBN, page 338. From the entry go nuclear

Meaning of epitomize

  1. verb To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
  2. verb To be an epitome of.

Full definition of epitomize

Questions about the past tense of epitomize

What is the past tense of epitomize?
The past tense of epitomize is epitomized.
What is the past participle of epitomize?
The past participle of epitomize is epitomized.
Is epitomize a regular or irregular verb?
Epitomize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: epitomize (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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