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Past tense of probe

regular verb

The past tense of probe is probed. The past participle is also probed.

Forms of probe

Base form (V1)probe /pɹəʊb/
Past tense (V2)probed
Past participle (V3)probed
Present participleprobing
Third person singularprobes

Probed in a sentence

  • Some of these leptogenic models of supersymmetry could even be probed by the LHC.From the entry leptogenic
  • They probed participants’ experiences with ghosting from the perspective of both the ghoster and the ghostee.2019 March 11, Vinita Mehta, “The Anatomy of Ghosting”, in Psychology Today, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025. From the entry ghosting
  • For a solid five minutes or so Rangers pinned Celtic back and probed at them.2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record. From the entry pin back
  • “You like nonveg?” he probed, extending the coffee cup to her.2007, Manikarnika Lagu, The Silicon Mind. From the entry nonveg
  • The lady laughed whinnyingly and probed with questing fingers at her back hair.1947, Kenneth Roberts, Lydia Bailey. From the entry whinnyingly

Meaning of probe

  1. noun Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
  2. noun An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
  3. noun Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.

Full definition of probe

Questions about the past tense of probe

What is the past tense of probe?
The past tense of probe is probed.
What is the past participle of probe?
The past participle of probe is probed.
Is probe a regular or irregular verb?
Probe is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: probe (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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