fingerprint
noun
an impression of the markings of the inner surface of the last joint of the thumb or other finger.
fingerprinted
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past participleof fingerprint.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof fingerprint.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
fingerprintnounan impression of the markings of the inner surface of the last joint of the thumb or other finger.
Example Sentences
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I wasn’t fingerprinted at the booth and still don’t understand why.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Asylum seekers are fingerprinted on arrival in the UK and checked against UK police databases, but these would not necessarily show a conviction from another country.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Because Cynthia’s white Fiero had been released to Gonzalez before it could be properly fingerprinted, police said it wasn’t useful to the case either.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
From Sunday, non-EU travellers entering Europe's Schengen open-borders zone will gradually be photographed and fingerprinted at border crossings, as the European Union rolls out its much-delayed automated border checks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Our right to be in England had to be double and triple confirmed, with sheaves of paperwork and fingerprinted identification cards in addition to the new kind of passports we’d been issued.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
