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Past tense of glove

regular verb

The past tense of glove is gloved. The past participle is also gloved.

Forms of glove

Base form (V1)glove /ɡlʌv/
Past tense (V2)gloved /ɡlʌvd/
Past participle (V3)gloved /ɡlʌvd/
Present participlegloving
Third person singulargloves /ɡlʌvz/

Gloved in a sentence

  • He gloved the line drive for the third out.
  • Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
  • Hold the bottle with the gloved hand and unscrew the top with the ungloved hand.From the entry ungloved
  • The assassin's gloved hands closed throttlingly around the victim's throat.From the entry throttlingly
  • Wrapped in thick knitting, scarfed, gloved, socked and booted I feel nothing.1985, New Writing Scotland, number 3, page 24. From the entry socked

Meaning of glove

  1. noun An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
  2. noun A baseball mitt.
  3. noun The ability to catch a hit ball.

Full definition of glove

Questions about the past tense of glove

What is the past tense of glove?
The past tense of glove is gloved.
What is the past participle of glove?
The past participle of glove is gloved.
Is glove a regular or irregular verb?
Glove is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glove (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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