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Past tense of fabricate

regular verb

The past tense of fabricate is fabricated. The past participle is also fabricated.

Forms of fabricate

Base form (V1)fabricate /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/
Past tense (V2)fabricated
Past participle (V3)fabricated
Present participlefabricating
Third person singularfabricates

Fabricated in a sentence

  • Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting.From the entry ghosting
  • The properties of a fabricated nanolaminate depend upon its composition and thickness.From the entry nanolaminate
  • The car body is a light steel shell fabricated by welding from top-hat, channel, and Z sections.1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 276. From the entry top hat
  • Exploiting this, the patterned copolymer template was fabricated, which provided an easy route for creating nanoperforations on graphene sheets.2018, Krasimir Vasilev, Plasma Nanoengineering and Nanofabrication, page 154. From the entry nanoperforation
  • The catch: Its intricate, knitlike patterns are stenciled, using a swath of chain mail specially fabricated for the task.2015 July 23, Roberta Smith, “‘Bonsai’ Show at Maccarone Honors Roger Brown”, in New York Times. From the entry knitlike

Meaning of fabricate

  1. verb To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
  2. verb To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
  3. verb To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.

Full definition of fabricate

Questions about the past tense of fabricate

What is the past tense of fabricate?
The past tense of fabricate is fabricated.
What is the past participle of fabricate?
The past participle of fabricate is fabricated.
Is fabricate a regular or irregular verb?
Fabricate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fabricate (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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