Past tense of fence
regular verb
The past tense of fence is fenced. The past participle is also fenced.
Forms of fence
| Base form (V1) | fence /fɛns/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | fenced |
| Past participle (V3) | fenced |
| Present participle | fencing /ˈfɛnsɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | fences |
Fenced in a sentence
- He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...
- He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.From the entry enclosure
- Many people feel fenced in by the new rules.From the entry fence in
- For safety reasons, a certain area around the skyport was fenced off.2017, Bogusław Dołęga, Robert Głębocki, Damian Kordos, Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control, page 477. From the entry skyport
- Across the yard, goats hooved the ground and rubbed their horns on the cedar posts of their fenced pen.2011, Melissa Coleman, This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry hoove
Meaning of fence
- noun A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- noun Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- noun The place whence such a middleman operates.
Questions about the past tense of fence
- What is the past tense of fence?
- The past tense of fence is fenced.
- What is the past participle of fence?
- The past participle of fence is fenced.
- Is fence a regular or irregular verb?
- Fence is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fence (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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