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Past tense of bracket

regular verb

The past tense of bracket is bracketed. The past participle is also bracketed.

Forms of bracket

Base form (V1)bracket /ˈbɹækɪt/
Past tense (V2)bracketed
Past participle (V3)bracketed
Present participlebracketing
Third person singularbrackets /ˈbɹækɪts/

Bracketed in a sentence

  • Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.
  • SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.2009, Michael Erard, “Holy Grammar, Inc.”, in Search Magazine, July–August 2009
  • Of course, time was molasses in the cold months that bracketed that very long year; time was monotony.2022, Julia Glass, Vigil Harbor, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry molasses
  • Bracketed by two roiling group passages, smaller dances slink by, marked by much creaturely creeping and carnivorous eroticism.2007 March 5, Claudia La Rocco, “Infernal Shades, Apparitions at Dusk, Spirits Who Tango”, in New York Times. From the entry creaturely
  • The oldest piece in the store was a wooden-handled de-thatching rake, which was bracketed way up near the rafters.2007, Richard Satterlie, Something Bad, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry de-thatching rake

Meaning of bracket

  1. noun A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
  2. noun Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
  3. noun A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

Full definition of bracket

Questions about the past tense of bracket

What is the past tense of bracket?
The past tense of bracket is bracketed.
What is the past participle of bracket?
The past participle of bracket is bracketed.
Is bracket a regular or irregular verb?
Bracket is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bracket (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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