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Past tense of romp

regular verb

The past tense of romp is romped. The past participle is also romped.

Forms of romp

Base form (V1)romp /ɹɒmp/
Past tense (V2)romped
Past participle (V3)romped
Present participleromping
Third person singularromps

Romped in a sentence

  • I romped through my finals.
  • England romped to an easy win over Australia.
  • The schoolyard, the vast playground where my friends and I once romped and laughed and dreamed, is enclosed by a tall chainlink fence.2005, Peter Doobinin, Suburban Boy, page 150. From the entry raingutter
  • They threw caution to the wind, not afraid to be seen together and even romped in the gardens of 'Southyork', the mansion Fergie shared with Andrew in Sunninghill, Berkshire.2000, Infamous Scandals, page 422. From the entry Southyork
  • On that record, Bad Pumpkin, they romped around the fringes of hard rock, toying with cowpunk on one side and zanier stuff (a Television-at-the-beach instrumental) on the other.1989 November 10, Bill Wyman, “Fetchin Bones”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry cowpunk

Meaning of romp

  1. verb To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
  2. verb (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
  3. verb To make progress or win easily.

Full definition of romp

Questions about the past tense of romp

What is the past tense of romp?
The past tense of romp is romped.
What is the past participle of romp?
The past participle of romp is romped.
Is romp a regular or irregular verb?
Romp is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: romp (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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