Past tense of explore
regular verb
The past tense of explore is explored. The past participle is also explored.
Forms of explore
| Base form (V1) | explore /ɪkˈsplɔː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | explored |
| Past participle (V3) | explored |
| Present participle | exploring |
| Third person singular | explores |
Explored in a sentence
- A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
- The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.
- The Voyager spacecraft explored the solar system and continued into the inestimable space beyond.From the entry inestimable
- These gendered constructions of subjecthood are explored in more detail in Chapter two of this book.From the entry subjecthood
- A few of our studies, however, have explored individual differences in self-focus.From the entry self-focus
Meaning of explore
- verb To seek for something or after someone.
- verb To examine or investigate something systematically.
- verb To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
Questions about the past tense of explore
- What is the past tense of explore?
- The past tense of explore is explored.
- What is the past participle of explore?
- The past participle of explore is explored.
- Is explore a regular or irregular verb?
- Explore is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: explore (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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