Past tense of clip
regular verb
The past tense of clip is clipped. The past participle is also clipped.
Forms of clip
| Base form (V1) | clip /klɪp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | clipped /klɪpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | clipped /klɪpt/ |
| Present participle | clipping /ˈklɪpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | clips /klɪps/ |
Clipped in a sentence
- She clipped my hair with her scissors.
- The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.
- After lights-out, I clipped the booklight to the cover and continued reading.From the entry booklight
- Decades of overgrazing by deer had reduced its hillsides to clipped lifelessness.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian. From the entry lifelessness
- But to return to the clipped tones of the Fifties dinner-jacketed BBC would be absurd today.2020 January 2, Colin Robson, “The BBC should look to the future”, in Evening Standard, page 11. From the entry dinner-jacketed
Meaning of clip
- verb To grip tightly.
- verb To fasten with a clip.
- verb To hug, embrace.
Questions about the past tense of clip
- What is the past tense of clip?
- The past tense of clip is clipped.
- What is the past participle of clip?
- The past participle of clip is clipped.
- Is clip a regular or irregular verb?
- Clip is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clip (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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