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Past tense of escort

regular verb

The past tense of escort is escorted. The past participle is also escorted.

Forms of escort

Base form (V1)escort /ˈɛs.kɔɹt/
Past tense (V2)escorted
Past participle (V3)escorted
Present participleescorting
Third person singularescorts

Escorted in a sentence

  • He reported that the police escorted the children five or six blocks beyond Natural Bridge Avenue and at that point stopped the white children who were following and shooed them back to the park.2009, Allen D. Grimshaw, A Social History of Racial Violence
  • The Tenant was restrained by the security guard and escorted out of the hearing room.2018, TST-00493-18 (Re), Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (Anna Solomon, member)
  • I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.From the entry body
  • After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.From the entry consummate
  • I’m unemployed!” and a few moments later, a security guard escorted the woman off the floor.2014 January 16, Victoria Bekiempis, “Atlantic City's Last 'Low-Roller' Casino Busts”, in Newsweek, retrieved 10 Jun 2015. From the entry pit boss

Meaning of escort

  1. noun A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
  2. noun An accompanying person in such a group.
  3. noun A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.

Full definition of escort

Questions about the past tense of escort

What is the past tense of escort?
The past tense of escort is escorted.
What is the past participle of escort?
The past participle of escort is escorted.
Is escort a regular or irregular verb?
Escort is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: escort (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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