Past tense of glean
regular verb
The past tense of glean is gleaned. The past participle is also gleaned.
Forms of glean
| Base form (V1) | glean /ɡliːn/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | gleaned /ɡliːnd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | gleaned /ɡliːnd/ |
| Present participle | gleaning /ˈɡliːnɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | gleans /ɡliːnz/ |
Gleaned in a sentence
- Some harvest loss was gleaned by animals, although little information is available on the proportion of harvest loss gleaned and no hard data is available on the quantity.1977 September 16, Elmer Boyd Staats, Comptroller General, “Food Loss”, in Food Waste: An Opportunity to Improve Resource Use: Report to...
- And, eventually, the newly gleaned information could inform how the company will make brewskis for Mars.2017 December 11, Jackie Wattles, “SpaceX is sending barley to space for Budweiser research”, in CNN Business, archived from the original…. From the entry brewski
- Much of the information about a group can be gleaned from a study of its subgroups.1990, Peter B. Kleidman, Martin W. Liebeck, The Subgroup Structure of the Finite Classical Groups, Cambridge University Press, page 1. From the entry subgroup
- I had gleaned some of the smoke talk of the natives.1944 November 18, The World's News, Sydney, page 19, column 3. From the entry smoke-talk
- And they have gleaned location data from license-plate reader databases that can be used to track where people drive.2022 September 15, Drew Harwell, “DHS built huge database from cellphones, computers seized at border”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry tap
Meaning of glean
- verb To collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest.
- verb To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.
- verb To take away (someone's) possessions; to strip (someone) bare.
Questions about the past tense of glean
- What is the past tense of glean?
- The past tense of glean is gleaned.
- What is the past participle of glean?
- The past participle of glean is gleaned.
- Is glean a regular or irregular verb?
- Glean is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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