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grepped

grepped is the simple past and past participle of grep.

Meaning of grep

Verb

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)

  1. To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
    • You can't grep dead trees.
  2. (broadly) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

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Questions about grepped

What is grepped the simple past and past participle of?
Grepped is the simple past and past participle of grep.

Words near grepped in the dictionary

  1. Grenzers
  2. Grenzes
  3. grep
  4. grepafloxacin
  5. greppable
  6. grepped
  7. grepping
  8. greps
  9. gres
  10. Gresford
  11. Gresh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grepped (page history and authors); grep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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