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Past tense of bronze

regular verb

The past tense of bronze is bronzed. The past participle is also bronzed.

Forms of bronze

Base form (V1)bronze /bɹɒnz/
Past tense (V2)bronzed
Past participle (V3)bronzed
Present participlebronzing
Third person singularbronzes

Bronzed in a sentence

  • My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
  • The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137
  • Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.From the entry sun
  • Blonds, brunettes, tall, stocky—it was a veritable smorgasbord of bronzed man-meat.2011, Stephanie Bond, Kill the Competition, unnumbered page. From the entry man-meat
  • The Yusun Clan either fled or surrendered in the face of these huge-boned, bronzed, godlike Warmen.1989, Richard La Plante, Tegné: Soul Warrior, Tor, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry warman

Meaning of bronze

  1. noun A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
  2. noun A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
  3. noun A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.

Full definition of bronze

Questions about the past tense of bronze

What is the past tense of bronze?
The past tense of bronze is bronzed.
What is the past participle of bronze?
The past participle of bronze is bronzed.
Is bronze a regular or irregular verb?
Bronze is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bronze (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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