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Past tense of dope

regular verb

The past tense of dope is doped. The past participle is also doped.

Forms of dope

Base form (V1)dope [dəʊp]
Past tense (V2)doped /dəʊpt/
Past participle (V3)doped /dəʊpt/
Present participledoping /ˈdoʊpɪŋ/
Third person singulardopes

Doped in a sentence

  • The more experienced cyclists, who doped or used to dope, transmitted the culture of doping to the younger cyclists, teaching them doping methods and suggesting which substances to use.2015, Vassilis Barkoukis, Lambros Lazuras, Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis, The Psychology of Doping in Sport, Routledge, →ISBN
  • He was so doped after the surgery that it took him 2 hours to remember his name.From the entry doped
  • The silicon was doped with boron to make a p-type semiconductor.From the entry doped
  • The doped fabric covering the Hindenburg was very flammable.From the entry doped
  • Some of the horses were registered under phony papers, their sires having been ruled off the track as doped or doctored.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry attainder

Meaning of dope

  1. noun Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
  2. noun An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
  3. noun Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.

Full definition of dope

Questions about the past tense of dope

What is the past tense of dope?
The past tense of dope is doped.
What is the past participle of dope?
The past participle of dope is doped.
Is dope a regular or irregular verb?
Dope is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dope (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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