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Past tense of pepper

regular verb

The past tense of pepper is peppered. The past participle is also peppered.

Forms of pepper

Base form (V1)pepper /ˈpɛp.ə/
Past tense (V2)peppered
Past participle (V3)peppered
Present participlepeppering
Third person singularpeppers /ˈpɛpɚz/

Peppered in a sentence

  • After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
  • The attorney peppered him with rapid fire questions, barely giving him time to reply.From the entry rapid fire
  • His writing was peppered with verbal tricks and prestidigitation.From the entry prestidigitation
  • Westminster Abbey was peppered with everything from neat pillbox hats to netted fascinators.2023 May 6, Chloe Mac Donnell, “Coronation fashion sprang few surprises – but all eyes were on Penny Mordaunt”, in The Guardian. From the entry fascinator
  • The researchers found that the first day of the Cenozoic was peppered with cataclysms.2019 September 10, Katherine Kornei, “A New Timeline of the Day the Dinosaurs Began to Die Out”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Cenozoic

Meaning of pepper

  1. noun A plant of the family Piperaceae.
  2. noun A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
  3. noun A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.

Full definition of pepper

Questions about the past tense of pepper

What is the past tense of pepper?
The past tense of pepper is peppered.
What is the past participle of pepper?
The past participle of pepper is peppered.
Is pepper a regular or irregular verb?
Pepper is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pepper (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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