Past tense of shoplift
regular verb
The past tense of shoplift is shoplifted. The past participle is also shoplifted.
Forms of shoplift
| Base form (V1) | shoplift /ˈʃɒplɪft/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | shoplifted |
| Past participle (V3) | shoplifted |
| Present participle | shoplifting |
| Third person singular | shoplifts |
Shoplifted in a sentence
- Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted, a boy of good family.1938 April, William Peery, “Thank Rotary!”, in The Rotarian, page 52
Meaning of shoplift
- verb To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
- verb To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
- noun A shoplifter.
Questions about the past tense of shoplift
- What is the past tense of shoplift?
- The past tense of shoplift is shoplifted.
- What is the past participle of shoplift?
- The past participle of shoplift is shoplifted.
- Is shoplift a regular or irregular verb?
- Shoplift is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoplift (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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