Past tense of nick
regular verb
The past tense of nick is nicked. The past participle is also nicked.
Forms of nick
| Base form (V1) | nick /nɪk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | nicked /nɪkt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | nicked /nɪkt/ |
| Present participle | nicking |
| Third person singular | nicks /nɪks/ |
Nicked in a sentence
- I nicked myself while I was shaving.
- Someone’s nicked my bike!
- A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.From the entry knicker
- Before they did the setup on the machining center, they stoned the table to knock down any nicked burrs.From the entry stone
- The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.From the entry snorter
Meaning of nick
- noun A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
- noun A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
- noun A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
Questions about the past tense of nick
- What is the past tense of nick?
- The past tense of nick is nicked.
- What is the past participle of nick?
- The past participle of nick is nicked.
- Is nick a regular or irregular verb?
- Nick is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nick (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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