Past tense of unseal
regular verb
The past tense of unseal is unsealed. The past participle is also unsealed.
Forms of unseal
| Base form (V1) | unseal /ʌnˈsiːl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | unsealed |
| Past participle (V3) | unsealed |
| Present participle | unsealing |
| Third person singular | unseals |
Unsealed in a sentence
- They selected items to be unsealed in 2114, including tickets to a Lady Gaga concert.2014 October 9, “Time capsule unearthed in New York: 'This is the thrill of recovering relics'”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated...
- He will then be arraigned, at which point the specific charges will be unsealed.2023 March 30, Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, William K. Rashbaum, Kate Christobek, Nate Schweber, “Trump Is Indicted, Becoming First…. From the entry arraign
- She peeped into the unsealed envelope and saw a stack of Ulysses S.2005, Ombonia Waits, Closed Circles, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry Ulysses S. Grant
- For example, Duncan said, one unsealed document shows an Instagram employee calling the app a “drug” and another employee saying, “lol, we’re basically pushers”.2026 January 27, Dara Kerr, “Tech giants head to landmark US trial over social media addiction claims”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry lol
- When the testamentor dies the testament is brought forward, and when possible opened in the presence of the seven witnesses who sealed it; i.e. unsealed, read aloud, and executed.2013, Jack D. Kilcrease, The Self-Donation of God. From the entry testamentor
Meaning of unseal
- verb To break the seal of (something) in order to open it.
- verb To open by having a seal broken.
Questions about the past tense of unseal
- What is the past tense of unseal?
- The past tense of unseal is unsealed.
- What is the past participle of unseal?
- The past participle of unseal is unsealed.
- Is unseal a regular or irregular verb?
- Unseal is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unseal (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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