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Past tense of omit

regular verb

The past tense of omit is omitted. The past participle is also omitted.

Forms of omit

Base form (V1)omit /əʊˈmɪt/
Past tense (V2)omitted /əʊ̯ˈmɪt.ɪd/
Past participle (V3)omitted /əʊ̯ˈmɪt.ɪd/
Present participleomitting
Third person singularomits

Omitted in a sentence

  • She climbed out of the car and carefully omitted to lock it.1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 136
  • His itemization of the inventory did seem accurate, however it omitted several crucial entries.From the entry itemization
  • The shugoshin Sgo1 homodimer and inhibitor toxin microcystin peptide have been omitted for clarity.2015 May 13, Chey Loveday et al., “Mutations in the PP2A regulatory subunit B family genes PPP2R5B, PPP2R5C and PPP2R5D cause human…. From the entry shugoshin
  • By contrast, Article IV omitted mention of self-help recaption or reclamation.2005, Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography. From the entry recaption
  • Letters omitted by the lapicide or evident mistakes of the lapicide corrected by the editor.2003, Adam Łajtar et al., Catalogue of the Greek inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum. From the entry lapicide

Meaning of omit

  1. verb To leave out or exclude.
  2. verb To fail to perform.
  3. verb To delete or remove; to strike.

Full definition of omit

Questions about the past tense of omit

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: omit (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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