Past tense of flow
regular verb
The past tense of flow is flowed. The past participle is also flowed.
Forms of flow
| Base form (V1) | flow /ˈfləʊ̯/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | flowed /fləʊd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | flowed /fləʊd/ |
| Present participle | flowing /ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | flows /fləʊz/ |
Flowed in a sentence
- The action is usually progressive, and as a certain amount of oil is flowed from the tubing it lowers the pressure on the remaining oil and liberates more gas, thus causing additional oil to flow from the tubing.1932, Carl Ernest Reistle, Paraffin and Congealing-Oil Problems, volumes 340-349, page 45
- The fog flowed milkily along the valley.From the entry milkily
- The stream flowed chatteringly over its bed of pebbles.From the entry chatteringly
- "What's brackin blood?" A deep baritone voice flowed through the speaker.2019, Genesis Woods, Diamond Mafia: How a Good Girl Set It Off, Blake Karrington Presents, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry what's bracking
- Free and falling, his midnight hair flowed out all around us like a silk canopy.2013, Sharon Ricklin, Ravenswynd Legends, page 143. From the entry midnight
Meaning of flow
- noun Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
- noun The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- noun A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
Questions about the past tense of flow
- What is the past tense of flow?
- The past tense of flow is flowed.
- What is the past participle of flow?
- The past participle of flow is flowed.
- Is flow a regular or irregular verb?
- Flow is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flow (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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