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Past tense of grain

regular verb

The past tense of grain is grained. The past participle is also grained.

Forms of grain

Base form (V1)grain /ɡɹeɪn/
Past tense (V2)grained
Past participle (V3)grained
Present participlegraining
Third person singulargrains /ɡɹeɪnz/

Grained in a sentence

  • Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet.2009, M. Obata, K. Ozawa, D. Spengler, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V44A-02. From the entry kelyphite
  • The rock is strongly tectonized with a finely grained structure.2011 September 20, Dariusz Malczewski, Jerzy Żaba, “Natural radioactivity in rocks of the Modane–Aussois region (SE France)”, in Journal…. From the entry tectonized
  • The sheets of alpha paper which have been grained are first dipped in soft acetate remaining there for three minutes.1939, Herald, volume 5. From the entry alpha paper
  • CPMD was developed from the ground up as a supermassively parallel code, employing a coarse-grained distributed memory parallelization and a fine grained parallelization by using Open complier directives.2014, John-von-Neumann-Institut für Computing (Jülich), Kurt Binder, Manfred Kremer, NIC Symposium 2012 Proceedings; 25 Years HLRZ…. From the entry supermassively

Meaning of grain

  1. noun The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
  2. noun Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
  3. noun A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.

Full definition of grain

Questions about the past tense of grain

What is the past tense of grain?
The past tense of grain is grained.
What is the past participle of grain?
The past participle of grain is grained.
Is grain a regular or irregular verb?
Grain is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grain (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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