Past tense of skew
regular verb
The past tense of skew is skewed. The past participle is also skewed.
Forms of skew
| Base form (V1) | skew /skjuː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | skewed /skjuːd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | skewed /skjuːd/ |
| Present participle | skewing |
| Third person singular | skews /skjuːz/ |
Skewed in a sentence
- For example, you can create a parallelogram by skewing a square, or you can create shadow effects with skewed text (which we show you later in this chapter).2010, Philip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan, “Enhancing the User Interface”, in Microsoft Silverlight 4 for Dummies (For Dummies), Hoboken, N.J....
- We have looked at the obese and anorexic communities, whose conditions fall on a curve skewed towards overweight for determining the social norm of body weight and who face a golden-mean social ideal of body weight.2006, Andrew Stark, “Between the Normal and the Ideal”, in The Limits of Medicine: Cure or Enhancement, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire...
- The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.From the entry distribution
- Indeed, they are mired in corruption, incompetence and skewed to China’s strategic interests.2018 December 18, Karim Raslan, “2018 was meant to be Xi Jinping’s year. Then China’s Belt and Road unravelled”, in South China Morning Post. From the entry Belt and Road
- Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results.2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian. From the entry bill
Meaning of skew
- verb To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- verb To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- verb To bias or distort in a particular direction.
Questions about the past tense of skew
- What is the past tense of skew?
- The past tense of skew is skewed.
- What is the past participle of skew?
- The past participle of skew is skewed.
- Is skew a regular or irregular verb?
- Skew is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: skew (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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