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Past tense of tilt

regular verb

The past tense of tilt is tilted. The past participle is also tilted.

Forms of tilt

Base form (V1)tilt /tɪlt/
Past tense (V2)tilted
Past participle (V3)tilted
Present participletilting
Third person singulartilts

Tilted in a sentence

  • As you keep losing, you become tilted and get frustrated.2019 October 15, Hawken Miller, “How to quickly climb the League of Legends ranked ladder”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The...
  • Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!From the entry fork
  • But as it turned out, our full-scale enmeshment with the internet has tilted much more personal.2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity…. From the entry enmeshment
  • Decades of road-centric planning and policies have tilted the playing field strongly against public transport use.2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 34. From the entry -centric
  • He then cut a rift into Isterr, and—” The griffin's head tilted down.2020 September 17, Debi Ennis Binder, Summerbird Rises, Debi Ennis Binder, page 41. From the entry dehance

Meaning of tilt

  1. verb To slope or incline (something); to slant.
  2. verb To be at an angle.
  3. verb To charge (at someone) with a lance.

Full definition of tilt

Questions about the past tense of tilt

What is the past tense of tilt?
The past tense of tilt is tilted.
What is the past participle of tilt?
The past participle of tilt is tilted.
Is tilt a regular or irregular verb?
Tilt is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tilt (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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