Past tense of braid
regular verb
The past tense of braid is braided. The past participle is also braided.
Forms of braid
| Base form (V1) | braid /bɹeɪd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | braided /ˈbɹeɪdɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | braided /ˈbɹeɪdɪd/ |
| Present participle | braiding /ˈbɹeɪdɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | braids /bɹeɪdz/ |
Braided in a sentence
- Or if you're commitment-phobic, get a temporary blue extension braided into your hair.2019, Susan Hyatt, Bare: A 7-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable…. From the entry blowout
- Her hair is braided and adorned with wide ribbons, and she wears black ankle boots.2017 April 19, “Mexico’s Folk Dances: Costumes and Features”, in Vallarta Lifestyles. From the entry Mexican pink
- Papa half in and half out of every photo, Grey with flowers braided through his plaits.2016 May 3, Harriet Reuter Hapgood, The Square Root of Summer, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry mullety
- The central object studied in this paper is a multiplier bimonoid in a braided monoidal category C.2015, Gabriella Böhm, Stephen Lack, “A category of multiplier bimonoids”, in arXiv. From the entry bimonoid
- She French braided his forelock, and wrapped white tape around the bottom of each thick braid.2012, Caroline Akervik, A Horse Named Viking, page 87. From the entry French braid
Meaning of braid
- verb To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
- verb To start into motion.
- verb To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
Questions about the past tense of braid
- What is the past tense of braid?
- The past tense of braid is braided.
- What is the past participle of braid?
- The past participle of braid is braided.
- Is braid a regular or irregular verb?
- Braid is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: braid (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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