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Past tense of bridge

regular verb

The past tense of bridge is bridged. The past participle is also bridged.

Forms of bridge

Base form (V1)bridge /bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Past tense (V2)bridged /bɹɪd͡ʒd/
Past participle (V3)bridged /bɹɪd͡ʒd/
Present participlebridging /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Third person singularbridges /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪz/

Bridged in a sentence

  • The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct.1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18
  • Less than thirty seconds bridged the whole astonishing transformation.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
  • The umbo cavity is bridged by a septum or myophore.2015 July 17, Rafael Araujo, Yde de Jong, “Fauna Europaea: Mollusca – Bivalvia”, in Biodiversity Data Journal, →DOI. From the entry myophore
  • Chou's life bridged traditional and revolutionary China.1979, Alden Whitman, “The Political Career of Chou En-lai”, in China Yesterday and Today, 2nd edition, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 441. From the entry Hwaian
  • On its far side, on the very horizon of the world, stood purple mountains, so tall and sharp that they bridged the firmaments.2001 December, J. Robert King, “Who are We?”, in Brian Thomsen, editor, Lancelot du Lethe, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 229. From the entry firmament

Meaning of bridge

  1. noun A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from a height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
  2. noun The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
  3. noun A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.

Full definition of bridge

Questions about the past tense of bridge

What is the past tense of bridge?
The past tense of bridge is bridged.
What is the past participle of bridge?
The past participle of bridge is bridged.
Is bridge a regular or irregular verb?
Bridge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bridge (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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