Past tense of glimpse
regular verb
The past tense of glimpse is glimpsed. The past participle is also glimpsed.
Forms of glimpse
| Base form (V1) | glimpse /ˈɡlɪm(p)s/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | glimpsed |
| Past participle (V3) | glimpsed |
| Present participle | glimpsing |
| Third person singular | glimpses |
Glimpsed in a sentence
- Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race—as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has been glimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would be glimpsed.1931 August, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Whisperer in Darkness. Chapter 8.”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine...
- She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood.From the entry manhood
- In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.From the entry dying
- I was flicking through the newspaper when I glimpsed a funny headline.From the entry flick through
- I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.From the entry vile
Meaning of glimpse
- verb To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.
- verb To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely.
- verb Chiefly followed by at or upon: to look at briefly and incompletely; to glance.
Questions about the past tense of glimpse
- What is the past tense of glimpse?
- The past tense of glimpse is glimpsed.
- What is the past participle of glimpse?
- The past participle of glimpse is glimpsed.
- Is glimpse a regular or irregular verb?
- Glimpse is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: glimpse (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.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of glimpse.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/glimpse. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.