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Past tense of optimize

regular verb

The past tense of optimize is optimized. The past participle is also optimized.

Forms of optimize

Base form (V1)optimize /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/
Past tense (V2)optimized
Past participle (V3)optimized
Present participleoptimizing
Third person singularoptimizes

Optimized in a sentence

  • Conditions in pearl oyster hatcheries are optimized for growth and survival of spat.2011, The Pearl Oyster, page 256. From the entry spat
  • Optimizing your META Keywords field is remarkably easy, especially if you have just optimized your page titles.2009, Stephen Woessner, The Small Business Owner's Handbook to Search Engine Optimization: Increase Your Google Rankings, Double Your Site…. From the entry copy-paste
  • The Web pages were optimized for different access modalities, including mobile devices.2007, Tomaz Jarm, Peter Kramar, Anze Zupanic, 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2007, page…. From the entry smartmodem
  • OCT systems must also be optimized to accommodate these ultrabroad bandwidths.2002, Martin E. Fermann, Almantas Galvanauskas, Gregg Sucha, Ultrafast Lasers: Technology and Applications, page 721. From the entry ultrabroad
  • Communication will be optimized by permitting people to present their needs in terms of referencable anchors.1984, Bernard H. Boar, Application Prototyping. From the entry referencable

Meaning of optimize

  1. verb To act optimistically or as an optimist.
  2. verb To make (something) optimal.
  3. verb To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.

Full definition of optimize

Questions about the past tense of optimize

What is the past tense of optimize?
The past tense of optimize is optimized.
What is the past participle of optimize?
The past participle of optimize is optimized.
Is optimize a regular or irregular verb?
Optimize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: optimize (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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