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Past tense of index

regular verb

The past tense of index is indexed. The past participle is also indexed.

Forms of index

Base form (V1)index /ˈɪndɛks/
Past tense (V2)indexed
Past participle (V3)indexed
Present participleindexing
Third person singularindexes /ˈɪndɛksɪz/

Indexed in a sentence

  • AWK's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.From the entry associative
  • Both the credit and AGI limits are indexed for inflation.2025 May, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 14. From the entry AGI
  • The "field number" of the film is indexed into a reference file, along with the cameraman's "dope" sheet.1967 August 4, “Stored at Quantico: Fifty Years of Filmed History”, in Free Lance-Star, USA, retrieved 07 Aug 2011, page 5. From the entry dope sheet
  • After that I sat around in the apartment and drank too much hot toddy trying to crack the code in Geiger's blue indexed notebook.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, New York: Alfred A. Knopf. From the entry hot toddy
  • If X is a discrete space, this is literally the smash power of A with itself indexed over X, and we keep this language also in the nondiscrete case.2016, Morten Brun, Bjørn Ian Dundas, Martin Stolz, “Equivariant Structure on Smash Powers”, in arXiv. From the entry nondiscrete

Meaning of index

  1. noun An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
  2. noun The index finger; the forefinger.
  3. noun A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.

Full definition of index

Questions about the past tense of index

What is the past tense of index?
The past tense of index is indexed.
What is the past participle of index?
The past participle of index is indexed.
Is index a regular or irregular verb?
Index is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: index (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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