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Past tense of prop

regular verb

The past tense of prop is propped. The past participle is also propped.

Forms of prop

Base form (V1)prop /pɹɒp/
Past tense (V2)propped
Past participle (V3)propped
Present participlepropping
Third person singularprops

Propped in a sentence

  • He lay on the hotel bed, his hands propped behind his head.2014, Heather Hopkins, The Weapon - Page 65. From the entry bastardness
  • Dannika propped her elbows on the bar and asked for a vodka mangotini.2012 June 15, Jody Gehrman, Notes from the Backseat, Harlequin, →ISBN. From the entry mangotini
  • It's propped against a jug, but all that is matterless now.2009, John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun. From the entry matterless
  • Melanie, propped and bed-jacketed, wore her white-rabbit mask, rosy eyes and nose, like a badge of privilege.2002, Caroline Slate, The House on Sprucewood Lane, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry bed-jacketed
  • My legs fell off my queen-sized bed and were propped up by a rocking chair.2000, Eben Carlson, The Love Artist. From the entry fetal

Meaning of prop

  1. noun An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
  2. noun The player on either side of the hooker in a scrum.
  3. noun Any of the seashells in the game of props.

Full definition of prop

Questions about the past tense of prop

What is the past tense of prop?
The past tense of prop is propped.
What is the past participle of prop?
The past participle of prop is propped.
Is prop a regular or irregular verb?
Prop is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prop (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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