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Past tense of penalize

regular verb

The past tense of penalize is penalized. The past participle is also penalized.

Forms of penalize

Base form (V1)penalize /ˈpiː.nəl.aɪz/
Past tense (V2)penalized
Past participle (V3)penalized
Present participlepenalizing
Third person singularpenalizes

Penalized in a sentence

  • Women should not be penalized or forced out of the workplace simply because they become pregnant.2014 December 3, Editorial Board, “Supreme Court should affirm the rights of pregnant workers”, in The Los Angeles Times
  • His misplay in the bridge tournament was penalized when it was noted he'd broken the rules.From the entry misplay
  • Unchastity had to be penalized because, as the Bible showed, it was highly offensive to God.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 31. From the entry unchastity
  • It was shown that penalized regressions are usually robust and provide better accuracy than nonpenalized methods for disease prediction.2015 August 4, Taesung Park et al., “Statistical Analysis of High-Dimensional Genetic Data in Complex Traits”, in BioMed Research…. From the entry nonpenalized
  • If the rider is over the time allowed he or she is penalized 1⁄4 time fault for every second over the limit.2010, Bradley Berner, Blood on the Irons. From the entry time fault

Meaning of penalize

  1. verb To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
  2. verb To impose a handicap on.

Full definition of penalize

Questions about the past tense of penalize

What is the past tense of penalize?
The past tense of penalize is penalized.
What is the past participle of penalize?
The past participle of penalize is penalized.
Is penalize a regular or irregular verb?
Penalize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: penalize (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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