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Past tense of upload

regular verb

The past tense of upload is uploaded. The past participle is also uploaded.

Forms of upload

Base form (V1)upload /ˌʌpˈləʊd/
Past tense (V2)uploaded
Past participle (V3)uploaded
Present participleuploading /ˈʌpˌloʊdɪŋ/
Third person singularuploads

Uploaded in a sentence

  • This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.From the entry worker
  • Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.From the entry leech
  • Check out the videos I uploaded online.From the entry video
  • I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and gave me a copystrike.From the entry copystrike
  • I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and copystriked me.From the entry copystrike

Meaning of upload

  1. verb To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet.
  2. verb To transfer jurisdiction and responsibility of a government asset or service to a higher level of government.
  3. noun Such a file transfer.

Full definition of upload

Questions about the past tense of upload

What is the past tense of upload?
The past tense of upload is uploaded.
What is the past participle of upload?
The past participle of upload is uploaded.
Is upload a regular or irregular verb?
Upload is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upload (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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