Past tense of oil
regular verb
The past tense of oil is oiled. The past participle is also oiled.
Forms of oil
| Base form (V1) | oil /ɔɪl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | oiled |
| Past participle (V3) | oiled |
| Present participle | oiling |
| Third person singular | oils |
Oiled in a sentence
- He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.From the entry weather
- They oiled it up with about five times more oil than was necessary.From the entry oil up
- Some of the bearings on this machine have oil cups. Make sure you keep it oiled up.From the entry oiled up
- They really oiled up that bike chain, didn't they?From the entry oil up
Meaning of oil
- noun Liquid fat.
- noun Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
- noun Petroleum.
Questions about the past tense of oil
- What is the past tense of oil?
- The past tense of oil is oiled.
- What is the past participle of oil?
- The past participle of oil is oiled.
- Is oil a regular or irregular verb?
- Oil is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: oil (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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