Past tense of exit
regular verb
The past tense of exit is exited. The past participle is also exited.
Forms of exit
| Base form (V1) | exit /ˈɛksɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | exited |
| Past participle (V3) | exited |
| Present participle | exiting |
| Third person singular | exits |
Exited in a sentence
- More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991 exited poverty in 1992.1995 August, Poverty’s Revolving Door (Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief; SB/95-20), [Washington, D.C.]: Bureau of the Census...
- When Walsh exited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan.1994, William F. Roemer, Jr., Mob Power Plays: The Mob Attempts Control of Congress, Casinos and Baseball: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: S.P.I....
- As we exited the observatory's parking lot, the truck's computer monitor started bleeping angrily.2021 August 3, Stephen Kurczy, “The Truth About the Quietest Town in America”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications…. From the entry go berserk
- The moment you requested an Uber and the moment you exited the car with a mere thank-you.2016, Aaron Keller, Renée Marino, Dan Wallace, The Physics of Brand: Understand the Forces Behind Brands that Matter, Blue Ash, OH: HOW…. From the entry uber
- They entered his body and exited it, they faded up, they ebbed out.2010, China Miéville, chapter 39, in Kraken: An Anatomy, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry corona
Meaning of exit
- noun An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- noun The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
- noun An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
Questions about the past tense of exit
- What is the past tense of exit?
- The past tense of exit is exited.
- What is the past participle of exit?
- The past participle of exit is exited.
- Is exit a regular or irregular verb?
- Exit is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exit (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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