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Past tense of resurrect

regular verb

The past tense of resurrect is resurrected. The past participle is also resurrected.

Forms of resurrect

Base form (V1)resurrect /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkt/
Past tense (V2)resurrected
Past participle (V3)resurrected
Present participleresurrecting
Third person singularresurrects

Resurrected in a sentence

  • And so it is good to see the big society born again, resurrected in Cameron's Christmas message.2014 January 4, Danny Kruger, “The big society is not about picking litter: it is meant to be a challenge”, in The Guardian. From the entry apposite
  • Even worse is Plotz's assessment that Tudjman resurrected Ustasa symbols, such as the Croatian checkerboard flag.2011, Branko Belan, In the Name of Independence: The Unmaking of Tito's Yugoslavia. From the entry Croatian checkerboard
  • We all have some secret little hope that the unworkables will be resurrected.2004, Don Aslett, The Office Clutter Cure, page 44. From the entry unworkable
  • While the idea isn’t new, it has been resurrected.2026 May 20, Arwa Mahdawi, “And, lo! The latest fad diet is upon us – and it’s called ‘eating biblically’”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry biblical eating
  • The origin of words is a question that now falls within the chapter of “glottogony”, resurrected after decades of inactivity.1995, Werner Winter, editor, On Languages and Language […] , Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry glottogony

Meaning of resurrect

  1. verb To raise from the dead; to bring life back to.
  2. verb To rise from the dead; to return to life.
  3. verb To restore to a working state.

Full definition of resurrect

Questions about the past tense of resurrect

What is the past tense of resurrect?
The past tense of resurrect is resurrected.
What is the past participle of resurrect?
The past participle of resurrect is resurrected.
Is resurrect a regular or irregular verb?
Resurrect is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: resurrect (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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