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Past tense of pulse

regular verb

The past tense of pulse is pulsed. The past participle is also pulsed.

Forms of pulse

Base form (V1)pulse /pʌls/
Past tense (V2)pulsed /pʌlst/
Past participle (V3)pulsed /pʌlst/
Present participlepulsing /ˈpʌlsɪŋ/
Third person singularpulses

Pulsed in a sentence

  • Hot blood pulsed through my veins as I grew angrier.
  • The emotion had pulsed from the outset, the Ukraine players emerging from the tunnel with blue and yellow flags around their shoulders; the rendition of their anthem seeing eyes well up.2023 March 26, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian
  • On collection of the 4 th fraction, tissues were pulsed for 5s in a vortexor.2015 August 18, Kirk S. B. Bergstrom et al., “Goblet Cell Derived RELM-β Recruits CD4+ T Cells during Infectious Colitis to Promote…. From the entry vortexor
  • The music and lights pulsed like the inside of a migraine; the drink had an evil underpull.2011, Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days. From the entry underpull
  • The new procedure relies on a type of laser called the pulsed photoangiolytic KTP.2008 May 6, Lawrence K. Altman, “Lasers May Treat Cancers of the Larynx”, in New York Times. From the entry photoangiolytic

Meaning of pulse

  1. noun A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the qualitative nature of this beat.
  2. noun The rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
  3. noun A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.

Full definition of pulse

Questions about the past tense of pulse

What is the past tense of pulse?
The past tense of pulse is pulsed.
What is the past participle of pulse?
The past participle of pulse is pulsed.
Is pulse a regular or irregular verb?
Pulse is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulse (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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