Past tense of flaw
regular verb
The past tense of flaw is flawed. The past participle is also flawed.
Forms of flaw
| Base form (V1) | flaw /flɔː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | flawed /flɔːd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | flawed /flɔːd/ |
| Present participle | flawing |
| Third person singular | flaws |
Flawed in a sentence
- The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.From the entry product
- This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.From the entry process
- Through media reports it percolated to the surface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.From the entry percolate
- His design for a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.From the entry flawed
- The prime numbers are infinite, therefore any proof that depends on their exhaustibility is flawed.From the entry exhaustibility
Meaning of flaw
- noun A flake, fragment, or shiver.
- noun A thin cake, as of ice.
- noun A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
Questions about the past tense of flaw
- What is the past tense of flaw?
- The past tense of flaw is flawed.
- What is the past participle of flaw?
- The past participle of flaw is flawed.
- Is flaw a regular or irregular verb?
- Flaw is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flaw (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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