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Past tense of indicate

regular verb

The past tense of indicate is indicated. The past participle is also indicated.

Forms of indicate

Base form (V1)indicate /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/
Past tense (V2)indicated /ˈɪndɪkeɪtɪd/
Past participle (V3)indicated /ˈɪndɪkeɪtɪd/
Present participleindicating /ˈɪndɪkeɪtɪŋ/
Third person singularindicates /ˈɪndɪkeɪts/

Indicated in a sentence

  • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company...
  • Amiodarone is not indicated in this type of arrhythmia.
  • The patient was given a disposition for outpatient care, as ward admission was not indicated.From the entry disposition
  • Polls indicated a dead heat for the office of dog catcher.From the entry dead heat
  • The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.From the entry doleful

Meaning of indicate

  1. verb To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
  2. verb To show or manifest by symptoms.
  3. verb To point to as the proper remedies.

Full definition of indicate

Questions about the past tense of indicate

What is the past tense of indicate?
The past tense of indicate is indicated.
What is the past participle of indicate?
The past participle of indicate is indicated.
Is indicate a regular or irregular verb?
Indicate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: indicate (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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