Past tense of skin
regular verb
The past tense of skin is skinned. The past participle is also skinned.
Forms of skin
| Base form (V1) | skin /skɪn/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | skinned /skɪnd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | skinned /skɪnd/ |
| Present participle | skinning |
| Third person singular | skins /skɪnz/ |
Skinned in a sentence
- He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
- Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC
- Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.From the entry knee
- In plain view of the entire party, Douggie and his buddies skinned up and started getting high.From the entry skin up
- My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.From the entry skinned
Meaning of skin
- noun The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- noun The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- noun The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
Questions about the past tense of skin
- What is the past tense of skin?
- The past tense of skin is skinned.
- What is the past participle of skin?
- The past participle of skin is skinned.
- Is skin a regular or irregular verb?
- Skin is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: skin (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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