Past tense of rip
regular verb
The past tense of rip is ripped. The past participle is also ripped.
Forms of rip
| Base form (V1) | rip /ɹɪp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | ripped /ɹɪpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | ripped /ɹɪpt/ |
| Present participle | ripping /ˈɹɪpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | rips |
Ripped in a sentence
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.
- Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.From the entry grunge
- The inferno ripped through the forest, destroying anything in its path.From the entry inferno
- The teacher ripped into Johnny when he found out he had plagiarised.From the entry rip into
Meaning of rip
- verb To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- verb To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- verb To remove violently or wrongly.
Questions about the past tense of rip
- What is the past tense of rip?
- The past tense of rip is ripped.
- What is the past participle of rip?
- The past participle of rip is ripped.
- Is rip a regular or irregular verb?
- Rip is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rip (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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