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Past tense of mimic

regular verb

The past tense of mimic is mimicked. The past participle is also mimicked.

Forms of mimic

Base form (V1)mimic /ˈmɪm.ɪk/
Past tense (V2)mimicked
Past participle (V3)mimicked
Present participlemimicking
Third person singularmimics

Mimicked in a sentence

  • Yeah, true.” Paige mimicked the gesture, even though her straight brown hair had zero floofiness.2020, Matthew S. Cox, Dr. Infinity and the Soul Smasher (The Adventures of Übergirl; 4), Division Zero Press, →ISBN. From the entry floofiness
  • The shifting shapes mimicked the dilemma of the nearly clueless mystery of the Higgins Grove murders.2010, Kathleen Newberg, Faux Finish, page 97. From the entry clueless
  • Just as action and symboling can be mimicked, so can anger.1973, Eugene T[ovio] Gendlin, “A Phenomenology of Emotions: Anger”, in David Carr, Edward S. Casey, editors, Explorations in Phenomenology…. From the entry mimickability
  • Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry plenty
  • But unlike them, when anger is mimicked it isn’t anger—it isn’t the emotion, only the action or the symbolic.1973, Eugene T[ovio] Gendlin, “A Phenomenology of Emotions: Anger”, in David Carr, Edward S. Casey, editors, Explorations in Phenomenology…. From the entry mimickability

Meaning of mimic

  1. verb To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
  2. verb To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
  3. noun A mime.

Full definition of mimic

Questions about the past tense of mimic

What is the past tense of mimic?
The past tense of mimic is mimicked.
What is the past participle of mimic?
The past participle of mimic is mimicked.
Is mimic a regular or irregular verb?
Mimic is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mimic (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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