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Past tense of reuse

regular verb

The past tense of reuse is reused. The past participle is also reused.

Forms of reuse

Base form (V1)reuse /ɹiːˈjuːs/
Past tense (V2)reused
Past participle (V3)reused
Present participlereusing
Third person singularreuses

Reused in a sentence

  • The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.
  • The estimated 2.7 million cubic metres of chalk and flint excavated from each tunnel (and then mixed with water to create slurry) will be treated and then reused to landscape the site and create a 127-hectare chalk grassland habitat.2021 July 14, Paul Stephen, “A portal into the future”, in RAIL, number 935, page 52
  • Its deconstructability was high, so a significant amount of material could be salvaged and reused.From the entry deconstructability
  • Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.From the entry evil
  • Doors are made with reused teak wood, and windows are made of cement jaali with WFR 1.1%.2023, Vijayalaxmi J., Building Thermal Performance and Sustainability, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry jaali

Meaning of reuse

  1. noun The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable.
  2. noun The act of using again, or in another place.
  3. verb To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).

Full definition of reuse

Questions about the past tense of reuse

What is the past tense of reuse?
The past tense of reuse is reused.
What is the past participle of reuse?
The past participle of reuse is reused.
Is reuse a regular or irregular verb?
Reuse is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reuse (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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