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Past tense of retrieve

regular verb

The past tense of retrieve is retrieved. The past participle is also retrieved.

Forms of retrieve

Base form (V1)retrieve /ɹɪˈtɹiːv/
Past tense (V2)retrieved
Past participle (V3)retrieved
Present participleretrieving
Third person singularretrieves

Retrieved in a sentence

  • The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved.
  • The farmer reached into his shed and retrieved an old hink to cut down the overgrown weeds.From the entry hink
  • Why were they not the core memories and achievements my mind retrieved when scanning the past?2019, Ravi Kailas, Cathy Guo, Myth of the Entrepreneur: A Search for True Value, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry core memory
  • For iris and iridochoroidal melanoma, paraffin-embedded tissue sections were retrieved from the pathology department.2015 September 15, “Distribution of GNAQ and GNA11 Mutation Signatures in Uveal Melanoma Points to a Light Dependent Mutation Mechanism”…. From the entry iridochoroidal
  • Several of the men in Alimacani retrieved from a storehouse the tool they used to catch alligators.2012, Thomas N. Tozer, Pierre's Journey to Florida: Diary of a Young Huguenot in the Sixteenth Century, unnumbered page. From the entry alligator

Meaning of retrieve

  1. verb To regain or get back something.
  2. verb To rescue (a creature).
  3. verb To salvage something.

Full definition of retrieve

Questions about the past tense of retrieve

What is the past tense of retrieve?
The past tense of retrieve is retrieved.
What is the past participle of retrieve?
The past participle of retrieve is retrieved.
Is retrieve a regular or irregular verb?
Retrieve is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retrieve (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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