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Past tense of mock

regular verb

The past tense of mock is mocked. The past participle is also mocked.

Forms of mock

Base form (V1)mock /mɒk/
Past tense (V2)mocked
Past participle (V3)mocked
Present participlemocking /ˈmɑkɪŋ/
Third person singularmocks

Mocked in a sentence

  • The problem is that the resulting class represents a mix of production and mocked behavior, a beast referred to as a partial mock.2013, Jeff Langr, Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development
  • The politician was mocked in the press for his reliance on spin rather than facts.From the entry spin
  • He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.From the entry disdainful
  • They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.From the entry mimicry
  • Fellow students mocked him on his first day for knowing only Ucwalmicwts, a dialect of St̓át̓imcets.2021 June 11, Rhianna Schmunk, “Catching tears”, in CBC News. From the entry St̓át̓imcets

Meaning of mock

  1. noun An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
  2. noun Mockery; the act of mocking.
  3. noun A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object, as used in unit testing.

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Questions about the past tense of mock

What is the past tense of mock?
The past tense of mock is mocked.
What is the past participle of mock?
The past participle of mock is mocked.
Is mock a regular or irregular verb?
Mock is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mock (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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