Past tense of rivet
regular verb
The past tense of rivet is riveted or rivetted. The past participle is also riveted or rivetted.
Forms of rivet
| Base form (V1) | rivet /ˈɹɪvət/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | riveted rivetted |
| Past participle (V3) | riveted rivetted |
| Present participle | riveting /ˈrɪvɪtɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | rivets |
Riveted and rivetted in a sentence
- Terror riveted him to the spot.
- Plain morions with riveted rims, none of your apprentice piece Spanish combs.2018, Nicholas Carter, Black Tom's Red Army, Canelo, →ISBN. From the entry lobster pot
- The besagew had a strap riveted to its back that could be fastened to the spaudler so that the besagew hung free over the gap.1999, R. Ewart Oakeshott, A Knight and His Armor. From the entry besagew
- Loads of screens (although most of them are rather vacuous), slick, cutsie graphics and an alarming tendency to keep one riveted for hours.1989, Jonathan Davies, Spooked (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 46. From the entry arcade adventure
- All longitudinal seams are dectuple riveted.1916 January, “Pacific Type of Locomotive for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad”, in Railway and Locomotive Engineering, page 20. From the entry dectuple
Meaning of rivet
- noun A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
- noun Any fixed point or certain basis.
- noun A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
Questions about the past tense of rivet
- What is the past tense of rivet?
- The past tense of rivet is riveted or rivetted.
- What is the past participle of rivet?
- The past participle of rivet is riveted or rivetted.
- Is rivet a regular or irregular verb?
- Rivet is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rivet (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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