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Past tense of segregate

regular verb

The past tense of segregate is segregated. The past participle is also segregated.

Forms of segregate

Base form (V1)segregate /ˈsɛɡɹəɡət/
Past tense (V2)segregated
Past participle (V3)segregated
Present participlesegregating
Third person singularsegregates

Segregated in a sentence

  • A single through non-platform line helps to keep freight and passenger trains segregated at Ipswich station.2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 54, photo caption. From the entry non-platform
  • Most studies indicate that Black family members live in proximity, in part an outcome of segregated communities.2006, Roberta L. Coles, “African American Families”, in Race & Family: A Structural Approach, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications…. From the entry fictive kin
  • Segregated and unwieldy as the group might be, it was now well established, aggressive, and successful.1998, Stanley Sandler, Segregated Skies. From the entry spratmo
  • The Sephardim permitted Ashkenazim to attend services in their synagogue but segregated them to the sides.1995, Eli Faber, Hanry L Feingold, A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654–1820, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 61, →ISBN. From the entry Ashkenazim
  • The problem of recognizing paleospecies is linked to a more fundamental problem in taxonomy —determining how species should be segregated.1996, Donald E. Johanson, Donald C. Johanson, Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language. From the entry paleospecies

Meaning of segregate

  1. adjective Separate; select.
  2. adjective Separated from others of the same kind.
  3. adjective Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.

Full definition of segregate

Questions about the past tense of segregate

What is the past tense of segregate?
The past tense of segregate is segregated.
What is the past participle of segregate?
The past participle of segregate is segregated.
Is segregate a regular or irregular verb?
Segregate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: segregate (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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