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Past tense of parallel

regular verb

The past tense of parallel is paralleled. The past participle is also paralleled.

Forms of parallel

Base form (V1)parallel /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/
Past tense (V2)paralleled
Past participle (V3)paralleled
Present participleparalleling
Third person singularparallels

Paralleled in a sentence

  • Get your freak on at LA's most hipsterific beach paralleled by the Venice Boardwalk.2008, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Los Angeles and Southern California, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry hipsterific
  • Its unsettledness and the extremes of its social style paralleled Mary's personality.1988 January 8, James Krohe Jr., “Reading: Last Among First Ladies”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry unsettledness
  • The change of toxins into toxoids is paralleled by the change of complements into complementoids.1913, Walter D'Este Emery, Immunity and specific therapy, page 158. From the entry complementoid
  • The heartpiece of a successful integration is the facilitation of knowledge transfer paralleled with high absorptive capacity of both organizations.2010 March 1, Richard K. Lenz, Post-LBO development: Analysis of Changes in Strategy, Operations, and Performance after the Exit from…. From the entry heartpiece
  • The coin of Berytus in the Salamis hoard likewise is paralleled by the Berytan coins found at Kourion.2004, The Roman Coinage of Cyprus, page 151. From the entry Berytan

Meaning of parallel

  1. adjective Equally distant from one another at all points.
  2. adjective Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
  3. adjective Either not intersecting, or coinciding.

Full definition of parallel

Questions about the past tense of parallel

What is the past tense of parallel?
The past tense of parallel is paralleled.
What is the past participle of parallel?
The past participle of parallel is paralleled.
Is parallel a regular or irregular verb?
Parallel is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parallel (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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