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Past tense of relish

regular verb

The past tense of relish is relished. The past participle is also relished.

Forms of relish

Base form (V1)relish /ˈɹɛlɪʃ/
Past tense (V2)relished
Past participle (V3)relished
Present participlerelishing
Third person singularrelishes

Relished in a sentence

  • Here the string is double tenoned into the shanks of both newels, also relished between tenons and pinned into the shank.1903, Fred[erick] T[homas] Hodgson, “Fourth Method: Examples of Platform Stairs”, in Common-sense Stair Building and Handrailing […]...
  • I relished every bite of the splendid sweet.2025, Ashok Kumar Bal, A Various World: People, Places, Perspectives. From the entry rasagola
  • This was the third morning running she’d relished the warmth and sugary sweet air of the Dunregan Bakehouse.2017, Annie O’Neil, Her Hot Highland Doc, London: Mills & Boon, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry raspberry
  • Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.1994, Rugh Winter, Bonnie Eaker-Weil, Adultery, the Forgivable Sin. From the entry newscaster
  • It is relished by cattle and horses, and is next to the gramma in value in those regions.1906, William Harding Carter, Horses, Saddles and Bridles, page 369. From the entry gramma

Meaning of relish

  1. noun Flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.
  2. noun Followed by for: one's liking or taste for something; a fondness.
  3. noun A small amount; a tinge, a trace.

Full definition of relish

Questions about the past tense of relish

What is the past tense of relish?
The past tense of relish is relished.
What is the past participle of relish?
The past participle of relish is relished.
Is relish a regular or irregular verb?
Relish is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: relish (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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