Past tense of gas
regular verb
The past tense of gas is gassed. The past participle is also gassed.
Forms of gas
| Base form (V1) | gas /ɡæs/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | gassed /ɡæst/ |
| Past participle (V3) | gassed /ɡæst/ |
| Present participle | gassing |
| Third person singular | gases /ˈɡæsɪz/ |
Gassed in a sentence
- The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
- He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.
- The riot squad tear gassed the mob.From the entry tear gas
- Stormzy quote tweeting me makes me a little bit gassed.2018, David Giles, Twenty-First Century Celebrity: Fame In Digital Culture, Emerald Insight, →DOI, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry quote tweet
- “Let's go over to Beer Can Boulevard and get gassed!"1956, Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!. From the entry gassed
Meaning of gas
- noun Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
- noun A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.
- noun Poison gas.
Questions about the past tense of gas
- What is the past tense of gas?
- The past tense of gas is gassed.
- What is the past participle of gas?
- The past participle of gas is gassed.
- Is gas a regular or irregular verb?
- Gas is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gas (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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