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Past tense of lubricate

regular verb

The past tense of lubricate is lubricated. The past participle is also lubricated.

Forms of lubricate

Base form (V1)lubricate /ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/
Past tense (V2)lubricated
Past participle (V3)lubricated
Present participlelubricating
Third person singularlubricates

Lubricated in a sentence

  • The cylinder barrels are lubricated by non-atomised feeds introduced at top and bottom.1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 211. From the entry piston rod
  • Therefore an "olivite" rubber bearing lubricated by water offers less frictional resistance than the metal bearing lubricated by grease and oil.1923, “Rubber Surfaced Bearings for Propellor Shafts of Small Craft”, in Rubber Journal, volume 66, page 7. From the entry olivite
  • The lubricated mask is inserted fully deflated, with the patient's head and neck in the sniffing position (lower neck flexed and upper neck extended, flextension).2019, Jonathan Thompson, Iain Moppett, Matthew Wiles, Smith and Aitkenhead's Textbook of Anaesthesia, →ISBN, page 471. From the entry flextension
  • Lubricated and fueled by Elf, the nationalized purveyor of French motion lotion, the RE30B is on the verge of becoming perhaps unbeatable.1983, Car and Driver, volume 28, page 106. From the entry motion lotion

Meaning of lubricate

  1. verb To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.
  2. verb To cause someone to become drunk, especially to make them more sociable or talkative.

Full definition of lubricate

Questions about the past tense of lubricate

What is the past tense of lubricate?
The past tense of lubricate is lubricated.
What is the past participle of lubricate?
The past participle of lubricate is lubricated.
Is lubricate a regular or irregular verb?
Lubricate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lubricate (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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