Past tense of snip
regular verb
The past tense of snip is snipped. The past participle is also snipped.
Forms of snip
| Base form (V1) | snip /snɪp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | snipped /snɪpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | snipped /snɪpt/ |
| Present participle | snipping /ˈsnɪpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | snips /snɪps/ |
Snipped in a sentence
- Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped.2001, David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century, John WIley & Sons Ltd, published 2001, →ISBN, page 72
- His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.2008, Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish, Adams...
- Push the snipped end of the piping bag through each slit into the bun.2021 September 30, The Bake Off Team, The Great British Bake Off: A Bake for all Seasons: The official 2021 Great British Bake Off book…. From the entry chouxnut
- Not only doesn't that happen, but if everyone snipped appropriately there would be no functional difference between posting methods.2002 September 23, Paul Gustafson, “Posting Etiquette”, in sci.astro.amateur (Usenet). From the entry bottom-poster
- Taking the scissors, Kim snipped from the back, near her nape, then thrust the hair forward, the small honey blond coil curling around Madame Loulou's outstretched fingers.1990, Lynn Leslie, chapter 1, in Street of Dreams, Harlequin Intrigue, page 12. From the entry honey blond
Meaning of snip
- verb To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- verb To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- verb To break off; to snatch away.
Questions about the past tense of snip
- What is the past tense of snip?
- The past tense of snip is snipped.
- What is the past participle of snip?
- The past participle of snip is snipped.
- Is snip a regular or irregular verb?
- Snip is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snip (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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