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Past tense of staple

regular verb

The past tense of staple is stapled. The past participle is also stapled.

Forms of staple

Base form (V1)staple /ˈsteɪ.pəl/
Past tense (V2)stapled
Past participle (V3)stapled
Present participlestapling
Third person singularstaples

Stapled in a sentence

  • They stapled the documents with an office stapler, putting a staple in the top left corner of each one.
  • They stapled the housewrap with a staple gun firing large staples.
  • He had stapled extra long sleeves to the suit so that he would have Mr.2007 April 22, “Amanda Cody and Mark Donohue”, in New York Times. From the entry tentaclelike
  • Everywhere Nokias and Samsungs are stapled to eager ears, clipped onto trousers or slipped into purses.2007, Susan Reinhardt, Don't Sleep with A Bubba: Unless Your Eggs Are in Wheelchairs, →ISBN. From the entry Samsung
  • However, stapled hemorrhoidopexy is gaining popularity and presents a new option for treating hemorrhoids.2006, Barbara L. Bittner, American Academy of Family Physicians, Guiding the patient through minimally invasive surgery. From the entry hemorrhoidopexy

Meaning of staple

  1. noun A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
  2. noun Place of supply; source.
  3. noun The principal commodity produced in a town or region.

Full definition of staple

Questions about the past tense of staple

What is the past tense of staple?
The past tense of staple is stapled.
What is the past participle of staple?
The past participle of staple is stapled.
Is staple a regular or irregular verb?
Staple is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: staple (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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