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Past tense of issue

regular verb

The past tense of issue is issued. The past participle is also issued.

Forms of issue

Base form (V1)issue /ˈɪʃuː/
Past tense (V2)issued /ˈɪʃud/
Past participle (V3)issued /ˈɪʃud/
Present participleissuing
Third person singularissues /ˈɪsjuːz/

Issued in a sentence

  • The water issued forth from the spring.
  • The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
  • Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.From the entry supersede
  • The singer has issued a sweeping denial of all the rumors.From the entry denial
  • Now that commerce is done electronically, tax stamps are no longer issued here.From the entry stamp

Meaning of issue

  1. noun A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
  2. noun The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
  3. noun The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.

Full definition of issue

Questions about the past tense of issue

What is the past tense of issue?
The past tense of issue is issued.
What is the past participle of issue?
The past participle of issue is issued.
Is issue a regular or irregular verb?
Issue is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: issue (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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