Past tense of panic
regular verb
The past tense of panic is panicked. The past participle is also panicked.
Forms of panic
| Base form (V1) | panic /ˈpænɪk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | panicked |
| Past participle (V3) | panicked |
| Present participle | panicking |
| Third person singular | panics |
Panicked in a sentence
- Then I'd come round the corner and hailed him, and that panicked him.1927 October, Rudyard Kipling, “Fairy-Kist”, in Limits and Renewals, Dominions edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1932...
- Her upbringing had been so chaste that her first experience French kissing ended in a panicked dash to the Piggly Wiggly to buy a home pregnancy test, just in case.From the entry chaste
- Visibly panicked, both split up and began scouring the parking lot and the building’s perimeter.2026 July 25, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Last Call of Jo-Anne Pedersen, the Girl Who Vanished From a Payphone”, in Skip Boring, archived from…. From the entry scour
- There's copium all around, panicked posters, and soothing souls advising everyone to buy the dip.2022 May 11, Matthew Gault, “Crypto Is Collapsing (For Now)”, in VICE, archived from the original on 13 May 2023. From the entry copium
- She'd used the old gypsy word for gun and in her panicked state she had't even noticed.2018, Jessie Keane, Fearless: The Most Shocking and Gritty Gangland Thriller You'll Read This Year, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry yogger
Meaning of panic
- adjective Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
- adjective Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
- noun Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
Questions about the past tense of panic
- What is the past tense of panic?
- The past tense of panic is panicked.
- What is the past participle of panic?
- The past participle of panic is panicked.
- Is panic a regular or irregular verb?
- Panic is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: panic (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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