Past tense of short
regular verb
The past tense of short is shorted. The past participle is also shorted.
Forms of short
| Base form (V1) | short /ʃɔːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | shorted |
| Past participle (V3) | shorted |
| Present participle | shorting |
| Third person singular | shorts /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/ |
Shorted in a sentence
- The NEA, state and city budgets are messed up and it's the small artists like us that are the ones getting shorted.1991 August 24, Maridee BonaDea, quoting Brian Freeman, “Pomo Afro Homos On The Road”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 9
- I had to rewire the circuit where the old wires had shorted out.From the entry rewire
- Maybe the static discharge shorted it out.2012, W. G. Marshall, Enormity. From the entry funk out
- About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is.1998, Stuart Ball, Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, page 71. From the entry shotgun
Meaning of short
- adjective Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- adjective Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- adjective Having little duration.
Questions about the past tense of short
- What is the past tense of short?
- The past tense of short is shorted.
- What is the past participle of short?
- The past participle of short is shorted.
- Is short a regular or irregular verb?
- Short is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: short (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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