Word.ws English Dictionary

Past tense of bond

regular verb

The past tense of bond is bonded. The past participle is also bonded.

Forms of bond

Base form (V1)bond /bɒnd/
Past tense (V2)bonded /ˈbɒndɪd/
Past participle (V3)bonded /ˈbɒndɪd/
Present participlebonding
Third person singularbonds /bɑndz/

Bonded in a sentence

  • The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.
  • The children bonded their snapshots to the scrapbook pages with mucilage.
  • Each carbon of the ring has one hydrogen attached except for the fourth one, which is bonded to a substituent.From the entry hydrogen
  • An underbed is necessary in unbonded cementitious installations and may be required in some bonded ones.2011, H. Leslie Simmons, Olin's Construction: Principles, Materials, and Methods, page 771. From the entry underbed
  • She'd bonded with Madison last summer, and this year the child was a little beeyatch.2005, Melissa De la Cruz, Skinny-Dipping, Simon and Schuster, page 147. From the entry beeyatch

Meaning of bond

  1. noun A document constituting evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
  2. noun A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
  3. noun A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.

Full definition of bond

Questions about the past tense of bond

What is the past tense of bond?
The past tense of bond is bonded.
What is the past participle of bond?
The past participle of bond is bonded.
Is bond a regular or irregular verb?
Bond is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bond (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Past tense of bond.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/bond. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.