Past tense of unzip
regular verb
The past tense of unzip is unzipped. The past participle is also unzipped.
Forms of unzip
| Base form (V1) | unzip |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | unzipped |
| Past participle (V3) | unzipped |
| Present participle | unzipping |
| Third person singular | unzips |
Unzipped in a sentence
- Karen unzipped a funsize chocolate snack with practised dexterity and handed it to Damian – ‘there.1999, Sarah Harrison, Heaven’s on Hold, Flame, Hodder & Stoughton, published 2000, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry funsize
- For unzipped mail, the clerk punches a button that shunts the letter aside for later processing by hand.1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195…. From the entry unzipped
- Cloudy crawls inside the unzipped backpack.2013 December 4, Jasmine Jean-Pierre, It’s Raining Uber, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry unzipped
- She threw the unzipped backpack outside, and when I ran out to get it, because I was worried about my homework blowing away, she locked and bolted the door.2004 April 6, Lisa Tucker, Shout Down the Moon, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry unzipped
Meaning of unzip
- verb To open something using a zipper.
- verb To come open by means of a zipper.
- verb To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.
Questions about the past tense of unzip
- What is the past tense of unzip?
- The past tense of unzip is unzipped.
- What is the past participle of unzip?
- The past participle of unzip is unzipped.
- Is unzip a regular or irregular verb?
- Unzip is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unzip (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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