Past tense of suck
regular verb
The past tense of suck is sucked. The past participle is also sucked.
Forms of suck
| Base form (V1) | suck /sʌk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | sucked |
| Past participle (V3) | sucked |
| Present participle | sucking /ˈsʌkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | sucks /sʌks/ |
Sucked in a sentence
- The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
- Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number...
- Jimmy sucked up to the English teacher hoping he would get an A.From the entry suck up
- I really didn't want to be on the committee, but somehow I got sucked in.From the entry suck in
- I really didn't want to be on the committee, but somehow I got sucked into it.From the entry suck into
Meaning of suck
- noun An instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction.
- noun Milk drawn from the breast.
- noun An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
Questions about the past tense of suck
- What is the past tense of suck?
- The past tense of suck is sucked.
- What is the past participle of suck?
- The past participle of suck is sucked.
- Is suck a regular or irregular verb?
- Suck is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: suck (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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