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Past tense of unbox

regular verb

The past tense of unbox is unboxed. The past participle is also unboxed.

Forms of unbox

Base form (V1)unbox
Past tense (V2)unboxed
Past participle (V3)unboxed
Present participleunboxing
Third person singularunboxes

Unboxed in a sentence

  • Clips in which children’s toys are unboxed are some of the most popular videos on YouTube.2014 December 16, Alex Frank, “Happy Unboxing Day! A Small Guide to the Very Large World of Unboxing Videos”, in Vogue
  • “And when I unboxed that Lafufu it was just so funny looking that I was like, ‘Oh my gosh.’”2025 July 3, Jessica Roy, quoting Victoria Bystritsky, “Their Labubus Are Fake, and They Don't Care”, in The New York Times, page D.3. From the entry Lafufu

Meaning of unbox

  1. verb To remove from a box.
  2. verb To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.

Full definition of unbox

Questions about the past tense of unbox

What is the past tense of unbox?
The past tense of unbox is unboxed.
What is the past participle of unbox?
The past participle of unbox is unboxed.
Is unbox a regular or irregular verb?
Unbox is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbox (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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