Past tense of latch
regular verb
The past tense of latch is latched. The past participle is also latched.
Forms of latch
| Base form (V1) | latch /læt͡ʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | latched |
| Past participle (V3) | latched |
| Present participle | latching |
| Third person singular | latches /ˈlætʃɪz/ |
Latched in a sentence
- They latched onto the idea and gave it up only reluctantly.From the entry latch onto
- He was looking for someone to talk to and latched onto me for some reason.From the entry latch onto
- Manospheric misogyny has latched on to this "natural" order and insists on its preservation.2021, Rachel Guy, “Nation of Men: Diagnosing Manospheric Misogyny as Virulent Online Nationalism”, in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and…. From the entry manospheric
- But despite the show’s depiction of Karma as presumably straight, fans latched onto the “Karmy” pairing.2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “From Strategic Retweets to Group Hangs: Writers’ Room Twitter Accounts and the Productive Ecology of TV…. From the entry Karmy
- Beth Orton has latched her acoustica onto the Chemical Brothers electronica with surprising results.1998, SPIN, volume 14, number 9, page 124. From the entry acoustica
Meaning of latch
- verb To close or lock as if with a latch.
- verb To catch; lay hold of.
- verb To use a latch (kind of lightweight lock).
Questions about the past tense of latch
- What is the past tense of latch?
- The past tense of latch is latched.
- What is the past participle of latch?
- The past participle of latch is latched.
- Is latch a regular or irregular verb?
- Latch is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: latch (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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