Past tense of ply
regular verb
The past tense of ply is plied. The past participle is also plied.
Forms of ply
| Base form (V1) | ply /plaɪ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | plied /plaɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | plied /plaɪd/ |
| Present participle | plying /ˈplaɪ.ɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | plies /plaɪz/ |
Plied in a sentence
- He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years.
- He plied his ax with bloody results.
- It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.From the entry scorching
- Plied with mugs of sugary cocoa, a frighteningly willing audience heeded the call of duty.2022 November 28, Lauren Mechling, “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol review – Netflix’s junky musical is a lump of coal”, in The Guardian. From the entry Scroogey
- There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […]…. From the entry dwarfish
Meaning of ply
- noun A layer of material.
- noun A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
- noun In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
Questions about the past tense of ply
- What is the past tense of ply?
- The past tense of ply is plied.
- What is the past participle of ply?
- The past participle of ply is plied.
- Is ply a regular or irregular verb?
- Ply is a regular verb: its past tense changes -y to -ied.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ply (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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