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Past tense of implant

regular verb

The past tense of implant is implanted. The past participle is also implanted.

Forms of implant

Base form (V1)implant /ɪmˈplɑːnt/
Past tense (V2)implanted
Past participle (V3)implanted
Present participleimplanting
Third person singularimplants

Implanted in a sentence

  • Both CRT-Ds and ICDs are implanted under the skin, in the patient’s upper chest area.2016 October 11, Hailey Middlebrook, “After 2 deaths, patients warned about heart defibrillators’ failed batteries”, in CNN. From the entry heartbeat
  • Adult animals were implanted with E-Mitter transponders intraabdominally to record body temperature and locomotor activity continuously.2015 December 3, “Abnormal Motor Activity and Thermoregulation in a Schizophrenia Rat Model for Translational Science”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry transponder
  • CED utilises implanted intracranial microcatheters through which drugs are infused at precisely controlled infusion rates.2015 July 18, “Convection-Enhanced Delivery of Carboplatin PLGA Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Glioblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry microcatheters
  • A few days after the electrodes were implanted, Bennett welcomed visitors into his hospital room.2013 December 9, Amy Standen, “Epilepsy Patients Help Decode The Brain's Hidden Signals”, in NPR. From the entry temple
  • They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them.2013, Alvin Jackson, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History. From the entry need-not

Meaning of implant

  1. verb To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
  2. verb To insert (something) surgically into the body.
  3. verb Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.

Full definition of implant

Questions about the past tense of implant

What is the past tense of implant?
The past tense of implant is implanted.
What is the past participle of implant?
The past participle of implant is implanted.
Is implant a regular or irregular verb?
Implant is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: implant (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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