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 participle | milking /ˈmɪlkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | milks |
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
- 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.
- noun A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
- noun An individual serving 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.
Source and license
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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