What's the past sense of the word backup?

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    Backed up? Backupped? Backuped?

    tricky...
     
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  2. ROOFIS

    ROOFIS Well-Known Member

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    Bankrupt? whoops:D backed up would be used in a past tense
    sentence ie "Fortunately for Joe he backed up his work before
    the power strike."



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    #3

    Ahh, thanks! I think that'll do. Backed up.

    But it comes strange that some dictionaries already include backup as a verb. So it's a little bit strange that you use backed up for the past tense of a verb backup.
     
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    It is backed up.

    She backed up her car into the lamp post.
     
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    #5
    As a verb you'll always find this term in the present tense.
    You asked for the past tense so I gave an example. :)



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