Past tense of overspend
irregular verb
The past tense of overspend is overspent. The past participle is also overspent.
Forms of overspend
| Base form (V1) | overspend |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | overspent |
| Past participle (V3) | overspent |
| Present participle | overspending |
| Third person singular | overspends |
Overspent in a sentence
- They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.From the entry run
- As a sloganeer too, he overspent his voice shouting slogans during demonstrations and he eventually lost it.2012 January 17, Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana, Subaltern Vision, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry sloganeer
- We over-budgeted, overspent, over-celebrated, over-enjoyed and over-entertained our customers.2010, Andrew Chia, Double Your Money, →ISBN. From the entry over-celebrate
Meaning of overspend
- verb To spend too much money; especially, to spend more than one earns.
- noun The amount by which someone or something is overspent.
Verbs like overspend
Questions about the past tense of overspend
- What is the past tense of overspend?
- The past tense of overspend is overspent.
- What is the past participle of overspend?
- The past participle of overspend is overspent.
- Is overspend a regular or irregular verb?
- Overspend is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overspend (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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