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Past tense of milk

regular verb

The past tense of milk is milked. The past participle is also milked.

Forms of milk

Base form (V1)milk /mɪlk/
Past tense (V2)milked
Past participle (V3)milked
Present participlemilking /ˈmɪlkɪŋ/
Third person singularmilks

Milked in a sentence

  • The farmer milked his cows.
  • When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
  • So instead of pleading for Beguildy I said—“Look's cows coming, they'll be stanked if they inna milked.”2022, Mary Webb, Precious Bane. From the entry stank
  • At the height of things, Bride Lake Farms had milked a herd of sixty-five registered Holsteins.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.5, at p.117. From the entry holstein
  • Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, strawberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.2005, Rowan Clifford, Rodeo Ron and His Milkshake Cows, Borzoi Books, →ISBN. From the entry strawberry

Meaning of milk

  1. noun A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
  2. noun A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
  3. noun An individual serving of milk.

Full definition of milk

Questions about the past tense of milk

What is the past tense of milk?
The past tense of milk is milked.
What is the past participle of milk?
The past participle of milk is milked.
Is milk a regular or irregular verb?
Milk is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: milk (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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