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Past tense of branch

regular verb

The past tense of branch is branched. The past participle is also branched.

Forms of branch

Base form (V1)branch /bɹɑːnt͡ʃ/
Past tense (V2)branched
Past participle (V3)branched
Present participlebranching /ˈbɹænt͡ʃɪŋ/
Third person singularbranches /ˈbɹænt͡ʃɪz/

Branched in a sentence

  • The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts
  • The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties, page 199
  • The carbon chain of an alkane may be linear or branched, but must not contain loops (cycles); its chemical formula is of the form CₙH₂ₙ₊₂.From the entry alkane
  • Vanatru and Rokkatru are newer traditions that branched off from Asatru.2019, Ryan Smith, The Way of Fire and Ice: The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism, page 9. From the entry Vanatru
  • Life emerges as chemical life (branched proteins) that yields biological life (branched protein protocells).2005, Joseph Seckbach, Julian Chela-Flores, Tobias Owen, Life in the Universe, page 357. From the entry biological life

Meaning of branch

  1. noun The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
  2. noun Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
  3. noun A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.

Full definition of branch

Questions about the past tense of branch

What is the past tense of branch?
The past tense of branch is branched.
What is the past participle of branch?
The past participle of branch is branched.
Is branch a regular or irregular verb?
Branch is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: branch (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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