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 participle | flooring /ˈflɔːrɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | floors |
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
- noun The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- noun The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- noun The ground.
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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