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Past tense of floor

regular verb

The past tense of floor is floored. The past participle is also floored.

Forms of floor

Base form (V1)floor /flɔː/
Past tense (V2)floored
Past participle (V3)floored
Present participleflooring /ˈflɔːrɪŋ/
Third person singularfloors

Floored in a sentence

  • our driver floored the pedal
  • We were floored by his confession.
  • The road was now a black tunnel floored with the impalpable defunctive glare of the sand.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 13. From the entry defunctive
  • Forrest floored Mosley again at the end of the round and almost finished him, but Mosley was saved by the bell.2002 July 19, Damon Hack, “Boxing: Despite Not Having the Title, Mosley Garners Attention”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry saved by the bell
  • The statement that really floored me was: "This state is going to be run by blacknecks and rednecks!1986, Ebony, volume 41, number 8, page 17. From the entry blackneck

Meaning of floor

  1. noun The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
  2. noun The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
  3. noun The ground.

Full definition of floor

Questions about the past tense of floor

What is the past tense of floor?
The past tense of floor is floored.
What is the past participle of floor?
The past participle of floor is floored.
Is floor a regular or irregular verb?
Floor is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: floor (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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