Past tense of grip
regular verb
The past tense of grip is gripped. The past participle is also gripped.
Forms of grip
| Base form (V1) | grip /ˈɡɹɪp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | gripped /ɡɹɪpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | gripped /ɡɹɪpt/ |
| Present participle | gripping /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | grips /ɡɹɪps/ |
Gripped in a sentence
- After a few slips, the tires gripped the pavement.
- He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- Seven were missing after the Tuesday fireworks explosion near Esparto, which gripped the small farming community.2025 July 4, “Human remains located after California fireworks warehouse explosion”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press, archived from…. From the entry esparto
- While scrolling through BeReals in the past few weeks, I’ve occasionally felt gripped by loneliness.2022 May 13, R. E. Hawley, “BeReal and the Fantasy of an Authentic Online Life”, in The New Yorker. From the entry BeReal
- Their semipronated right hand gripped a manipulandum underneath a horizontally suspended mirror.2013 October 16, Ulrike Hammerbeck et al., “Movement speed is biased by prior experience”, in Journal of Neurophysiology, volume 111, →DOI. From the entry semipronated
Meaning of grip
- verb To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
- verb To figuratively take hold of or grasp.
- verb Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
Questions about the past tense of grip
- What is the past tense of grip?
- The past tense of grip is gripped.
- What is the past participle of grip?
- The past participle of grip is gripped.
- Is grip a regular or irregular verb?
- Grip is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grip (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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