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Past tense of exclude

regular verb

The past tense of exclude is excluded. The past participle is also excluded.

Forms of exclude

Base form (V1)exclude /ɪksˈkluːd/
Past tense (V2)excluded /ɪksˈkluːdɪd/
Past participle (V3)excluded /ɪksˈkluːdɪd/
Present participleexcluding
Third person singularexcludes

Excluded in a sentence

  • Better to be excluded from society than to deny the virtue of citizenship.From the entry virtue
  • Expansion of acronyms is often helpful for nonexpert readers (anacronyms excluded).From the entry expansion
  • The new study addresses the blind spot created by previous research having excluded healthy adult subjects.From the entry blind spot
  • The provisory clause effectively excluded his otherwise logical heirs from his main inheritance.From the entry provisory
  • A Boolean algebra is a De Morgan algebra which also satisfies the law of excluded middle and the law of noncontradiction.From the entry Boolean algebra

Meaning of exclude

  1. verb To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
  2. verb To expel; to put out.
  3. verb To omit from consideration.

Full definition of exclude

Questions about the past tense of exclude

What is the past tense of exclude?
The past tense of exclude is excluded.
What is the past participle of exclude?
The past participle of exclude is excluded.
Is exclude a regular or irregular verb?
Exclude is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exclude (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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