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Past tense of fist

regular verb

The past tense of fist is fisted. The past participle is also fisted.

Forms of fist

Base form (V1)fist /fɪst/
Past tense (V2)fisted /ˈfɪstɪd/
Past participle (V3)fisted /ˈfɪstɪd/
Present participlefisting /ˈfɪstɪŋ/
Third person singularfists /fɪsts/

Meaning of fist

  1. noun A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
  2. noun Synonym of manicule.
  3. noun The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.

Full definition of fist

Questions about the past tense of fist

What is the past tense of fist?
The past tense of fist is fisted.
What is the past participle of fist?
The past participle of fist is fisted.
Is fist a regular or irregular verb?
Fist is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fist (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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