Past tense of reinvent
regular verb
The past tense of reinvent is reinvented. The past participle is also reinvented.
Forms of reinvent
| Base form (V1) | reinvent /ɹiːɪnˈvɛnt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | reinvented |
| Past participle (V3) | reinvented |
| Present participle | reinventing |
| Third person singular | reinvents |
Reinvented in a sentence
- When Lew Wasserman reinvented the studio system, leadership skills grew harder to find and the number of modern studio conglomerates boiled down to six, as discussed in chapters 15 to 20.2019, Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
- For Apocalypse Now (above), Francis Ford Coppola reinvented the Vietnam War with the proverbial cast of thousands.1977, James Monaco, How to Read a Film - The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and Media, page 15. From the entry cast of thousands
- Reinvented according to this model—called regional express rail (RER)—Metra's key hubs would be O'Hare Airport, the Loop, and McCormick Place.2021 November 10, “A path to high-speed rail in Chicago—through a reinvented Metra”, in Chicago Business. From the entry RER
- When it comes to investment theories, nothing new under the sun exists because ideas go stale and then get reinvented.2015, Tony Levene, Investing for Dummies, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry what goes around comes around
- I would tell Drew about the first achievement of my new spiritual journey: I had proudly reinvented the Golden Rule.2010 January 13, Kate Braestrup, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir, Little, Brown, →ISBN. From the entry pissicle
Meaning of reinvent
- verb To invent again something that has already been invented.
- verb To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to.
Questions about the past tense of reinvent
- What is the past tense of reinvent?
- The past tense of reinvent is reinvented.
- What is the past participle of reinvent?
- The past participle of reinvent is reinvented.
- Is reinvent a regular or irregular verb?
- Reinvent is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: reinvent (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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