Past tense of restart
regular verb
The past tense of restart is restarted. The past participle is also restarted.
Forms of restart
| Base form (V1) | restart /ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | restarted |
| Past participle (V3) | restarted |
| Present participle | restarting |
| Third person singular | restarts |
Restarted in a sentence
- The game reseeded its random number algorithm with a time-based value each time the game was restarted.From the entry reseed
- His republication of the old story restarted a furor that had quieted with time.From the entry republication
- He waved off the approaching truck driver and restarted the apparatus.From the entry wave off
- You thought Panama was in Africa? Are you restarted?From the entry restarted
- Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal.2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian. From the entry break
Meaning of restart
- noun The act of starting something again.
- verb To start again.
- verb Synonym of reboot.
Questions about the past tense of restart
- What is the past tense of restart?
- The past tense of restart is restarted.
- What is the past participle of restart?
- The past participle of restart is restarted.
- Is restart a regular or irregular verb?
- Restart is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: restart (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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