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Past tense of bypass

regular verb

The past tense of bypass is bypassed. The past participle is also bypassed.

Forms of bypass

Base form (V1)bypass /ˈbaɪpæs/
Past tense (V2)bypassed
Past participle (V3)bypassed
Present participlebypassing
Third person singularbypasses

Bypassed in a sentence

  • I never got seated. 1 stood in the entrance half an hour, bypassed again and again by a maitre d’hotel who had clearly been through all this many times before.1963 April, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 1, number 1, New York...
  • I bypassed the switch and hot-wired the circuit board to the power supply.From the entry hot-wire
  • Instead, for a long time, he bypassed it altogether.2001, Julie H. Reiss, From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art, page 29. From the entry antimuseum
  • Sixty-six, we were told, was being bypassed.1986, Phil Patton, “Sentimental Journeys: The Myths of Route 66”, in Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry ma-and-pa
  • Still, many of the camera crews bypassed these boxes and strung their own mics to the table, strapping them to the main microphone.2013, Kerry Reis, Legacy Discovered, page 89. From the entry mult box

Meaning of bypass

  1. noun A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
  2. noun A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
  3. noun The act of going past or around.

Full definition of bypass

Questions about the past tense of bypass

What is the past tense of bypass?
The past tense of bypass is bypassed.
What is the past participle of bypass?
The past participle of bypass is bypassed.
Is bypass a regular or irregular verb?
Bypass is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bypass (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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