Past tense of police
regular verb
The past tense of police is policed. The past participle is also policed.
Forms of police
| Base form (V1) | police /pəˈliːs/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | policed |
| Past participle (V3) | policed |
| Present participle | policing |
| Third person singular | polices /pəˈliːsɪz/ |
Policed in a sentence
- In our contemporary context, for example, black men are not often policed with soft, squishy, Rover-like marshmallowiness in the U.S. criminal justice system.2021, David Michael Higgins, “The Whiteness of Black Iron Prisons”, in Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and…. From the entry marshmallowiness
- He was a resequenced neanderthal named Stiggins and soon to be, I assumed, divisional head of SO-13, the department that policed all unextincted creatures.2012, Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot. From the entry unextinct
Meaning of police
- noun A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
- noun A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- noun A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
Questions about the past tense of police
- What is the past tense of police?
- The past tense of police is policed.
- What is the past participle of police?
- The past participle of police is policed.
- Is police a regular or irregular verb?
- Police is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: police (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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