Past tense of worship
regular verb
The past tense of worship is worshiped or worshipped. The past participle is also worshiped or worshipped.
Forms of worship
| Base form (V1) | worship /ˈwɜː.ʃɪp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | worshiped /ˈwɝʃɪpt/ worshipped /ˈwɝʃɪpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | worshiped /ˈwɝʃɪpt/ worshipped /ˈwɝʃɪpt/ |
| Present participle | worshiping |
| Third person singular | worships |
Worshiped and worshipped in a sentence
- All the household worshipped her!1934, Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, New York: Pocket Books, published 1960, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 236
- A popular form of Kali worshiped in Calcutta is Adya Shakti Kali, or Kali as primordial power.2011, June McDaniel, “2: Kali: Goddess of Life, Death, and Transcendence”, in Patricia Monaghan, editor, Goddesses in World Culture…. From the entry kali
- He put her on a pedestal, showered her with gifts, and worshiped the ground she walked on.2010, Jennifer Harper, Still A Friend of Mine, →ISBN. From the entry put on a pedestal
- They are enshrined and worshiped on the table as ‘holy scripture’ for KTV devotees.2006, Tsen Wang, "DEMO Exegesis: Virtual Songs", in Kevin K. W. Wong et al., Proceedings of Third Australasian Conference of Interactice…. From the entry KTV
- The end result would be a population that no longer worshiped God but instead revered the Soviet system with religiouslike devotion.2008, Froese, Paul, The plot to kill God : findings from the Soviet experiment in secularization, page 28. From the entry religiouslike
Meaning of worship
- noun The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
- noun The adoration (or latria) owed to God alone, as greater than the hyperdulia that is given to Saint Mary only and the veneration (or dulia) accorded to all other Roman Catholic saints.
- noun The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
Questions about the past tense of worship
- What is the past tense of worship?
- The past tense of worship is worshiped or worshipped.
- What is the past participle of worship?
- The past participle of worship is worshiped or worshipped.
- Is worship a regular or irregular verb?
- Worship is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: worship (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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