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Past tense of fragment

regular verb

The past tense of fragment is fragmented. The past participle is also fragmented.

Forms of fragment

Base form (V1)fragment /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
Past tense (V2)fragmented
Past participle (V3)fragmented
Present participlefragmenting
Third person singularfragments /ˈfɹæɡmənts/

Fragmented in a sentence

  • Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.2023 July 31, Charles Hugh Smith, Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization
  • An investigation found that the rail had fragmented as trains passed over it, and that the likely cause was "rolling contact fatigue" defined as multiple surface-breaking cracks.2026 March 18, Peter Plisner, “Tackling broken rails: the skills and technology improving safety”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 30
  • This dialectal dexterity prevents fragmented accuracy across geos and usage domains.2024 May 31, Josué R. Batista, Learn OpenAI Whisper: Transform your understanding of GenAI through robust and accurate speech processing…. From the entry geo
  • As southeast Asia's forests were felled, the rhino's habitat shrank and became fragmented.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry fell
  • Such antispatial, incorporeal, and fragmented modes of communication make physical proximity less important.1996, Frank Northen Magill, Magill's Literary Annual 1996, volume 1. From the entry antispatial

Meaning of fragment

  1. noun A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
  2. noun A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
  3. noun An incomplete portion of code.

Full definition of fragment

Questions about the past tense of fragment

What is the past tense of fragment?
The past tense of fragment is fragmented.
What is the past participle of fragment?
The past participle of fragment is fragmented.
Is fragment a regular or irregular verb?
Fragment is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fragment (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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