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Past tense of intersect

regular verb

The past tense of intersect is intersected. The past participle is also intersected.

Forms of intersect

Base form (V1)intersect /ɪntəˈsɛkt/
Past tense (V2)intersected
Past participle (V3)intersected
Present participleintersecting
Third person singularintersects

Intersected in a sentence

  • It has a circumference of many miles, intersected at intervals by gates guarded day and night by armed soldiers.1991, Chris Mullin, The Year of the Fire Monkey (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252. From the entry Forbidden City
  • Rev. — A device of doubtful interpretation intersected by two crosses in saltire and surmounted by a third.1920, Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, page 240. From the entry climant
  • The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 123. From the entry temenos
  • The saturnine line going from the rascetta through the hand to Saturn's mount, and there intersected by certain little lines, argues melancholy., New York, 2001, p.209. From the entry rascetta
  • It is concluded that the severe storms formed in close proximity to a "triple point" (TP), at which a synoptic cold front and "insolation-enhanced" warm front intersected.2006, The International Journal of Meteorology. From the entry triple point

Meaning of intersect

  1. verb To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
  2. verb Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.
  3. adjective Between sects; intersectarian.

Full definition of intersect

Questions about the past tense of intersect

What is the past tense of intersect?
The past tense of intersect is intersected.
What is the past participle of intersect?
The past participle of intersect is intersected.
Is intersect a regular or irregular verb?
Intersect is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intersect (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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