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Past tense of splice

regular verb

The past tense of splice is spliced. The past participle is also spliced.

Forms of splice

Base form (V1)splice /ˈsplaɪ̯s/
Past tense (V2)spliced
Past participle (V3)spliced
Present participlesplicing
Third person singularsplices

Spliced in a sentence

  • Ah! thinkin’ o’ gettin’ spliced, you two?1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
  • Her arms were spliced and socketed to the trunk, and were flung wide in a circling, compelling movement.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 6, in Klee Wyck. From the entry socket

Meaning of splice

  1. noun A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
  2. noun The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
  3. noun That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.

Full definition of splice

Questions about the past tense of splice

What is the past tense of splice?
The past tense of splice is spliced.
What is the past participle of splice?
The past participle of splice is spliced.
Is splice a regular or irregular verb?
Splice is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: splice (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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