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Past tense of peak

regular verb

The past tense of peak is peaked. The past participle is also peaked.

Forms of peak

Base form (V1)peak /piːk/
Past tense (V2)peaked /piːkt/
Past participle (V3)peaked /piːkt/
Present participlepeaking /ˈpiːkɪŋ/
Third person singularpeaks /piːks/

Peaked in a sentence

  • The wizard wore a peaked cap.From the entry peaked
  • The index tells us that Zimbabwe's inflation rate recently peaked at 80 billion percent a month.2008 December 22, Steven Hanke, “The Printing Press”, in Forbes. From the entry novemdecillion
  • When hyperinflation peaked, wheelbarrows full of money were required to shop for groceries.2004, John Barkley Rosser, Marina V. Rosser, Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy, page 236. From the entry hyperinflation
  • Allosexual behavior peaked during the follicular phase for both heterosexual women and lesbians.2002, Mary H Burleson et al., “Sexual behavior in lesbian and heterosexual women: relations with menstrual cycle phase and partner…. From the entry allosexual
  • In this study, the P1 peaked at the frontal region, and the P1 modulation peaked at the midfrontal area.2015 September 15, “The Complex Pre-Execution Stage of Auditory Cognitive Control: ERPs Evidence from Stroop Tasks”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry midfrontal

Meaning of peak

  1. noun A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
  2. noun The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
  3. noun The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.

Full definition of peak

Questions about the past tense of peak

What is the past tense of peak?
The past tense of peak is peaked.
What is the past participle of peak?
The past participle of peak is peaked.
Is peak a regular or irregular verb?
Peak is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peak (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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