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 participle | retrieving |
| Third person singular | retrieves |
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
- verb To regain or get back something.
- verb To rescue (a creature).
- verb To salvage something.
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.
Source and license
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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