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Past tense of slink

irregular verb

The past tense of slink is slunk or slinked. The past participle is also slunk or slinked.

Forms of slink

Base form (V1)slink /slɪŋk/
Past tense (V2)slunk /slʌŋk/
slinked
Past participle (V3)slunk /slʌŋk/
slinked
Present participleslinking
Third person singularslinks

Slunk and slinked in a sentence

  • Earnest slunk backstage.2013 November, Glenn Thrush, “Locked in the Cabinet”, in POLITICO
  • I truly resent any insinuation that I "slunk back into that rotting old closet."1976 August 28, Michael Shernoff, “No 'Rotting Closet'”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 5. From the entry impel
  • The Oorya, not unanxious to play off one parasite against the other, slunk away toward the dovecot.1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim. From the entry unanxious
  • That was such a sneaky walk.” “They slunk.” “They did.2026 May 17, Jon Schroeder, “Stuck in the Middle with Hu(go)” (11:01 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 16, episode 14, spoken by…. From the entry slunk
  • Now Tod slunk forward, belly to the ground.2025, Daniel P. Mannix, The Fox and the Hound. From the entry upcraned

Meaning of slink

  1. verb To sneak about furtively.
  2. verb To give birth to an animal prematurely.
  3. noun A furtive sneaking motion.

Full definition of slink

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Questions about the past tense of slink

What is the past tense of slink?
The past tense of slink is slunk or slinked.
What is the past participle of slink?
The past participle of slink is slunk or slinked.
Is slink a regular or irregular verb?
Slink is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slink (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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