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Past tense of supervise

regular verb

The past tense of supervise is supervised. The past participle is also supervised.

Forms of supervise

Base form (V1)supervise /ˈsuː.pə.vaɪz/
Past tense (V2)supervised
Past participle (V3)supervised
Present participlesupervising
Third person singularsupervises

Supervised in a sentence

  • The knowledge worker may have a supervisor, but he or she is never supervised in the same way that a manual or process worker is supervised.2017, David I. Ben-Tovim, Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking, →ISBN
  • We propose a novel supervised learning technique for summarizing videos by automatically selecting keyframes or key subshots.2016, Ke Zhang, Wei-Lun Chao, Fei Sha, Kristen Grauman, “Video Summarization with Long Short-term Memory”, in arXiv. From the entry subshot
  • “You can work on it only if you're supervised.” Even the Oil of Olay moisturizer is confiscated.2012, Elizabeth Flock, But Inside I'm Screaming. From the entry upspeak
  • Head to your downstairs playroom or safe, supervised yard and let things take their kidly course.2010, Robyn Spizman, Evelyn Sacks, Eat, Nap, Play: How to Get Even More Out of Your Child's Day for Less. From the entry kidly
  • Reinforcement learning can be seen as somewhere between supervised and unsupervised learning.2010, Lutz Frommberger, Qualitative Spatial Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry reinforcement learning

Meaning of supervise

  1. verb To oversee or direct (a task or organization).
  2. verb To oversee a task, organization, etc.; to provide supervision; to act as a supervisor.
  3. verb To look over so as to read; to peruse.

Full definition of supervise

Questions about the past tense of supervise

What is the past tense of supervise?
The past tense of supervise is supervised.
What is the past participle of supervise?
The past participle of supervise is supervised.
Is supervise a regular or irregular verb?
Supervise is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supervise (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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