Past tense of stray
regular verb
The past tense of stray is strayed. The past participle is also strayed.
Forms of stray
| Base form (V1) | stray /stɹeɪ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | strayed |
| Past participle (V3) | strayed |
| Present participle | straying |
| Third person singular | strays |
Strayed in a sentence
- The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.From the entry intern
- Her eyes strayed across the flat landscape and her fingers stilled, knife in midshave down a potato.1992, Christine Dorsey, Kansas Kiss, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry midshave
- They have strayed from and lost the high regard for themselves.1964 March 14, J. Donald Backenstose, “This Week's Meditation…: On Having a High Regard for Yourself”, in Lebanon Daily News, volume 92…. From the entry trashify
- But in national politics the Sooner State has twice strayed from the Democratic reservation (Harding and Hoover).1943 August 16, “U.S. At War: Every Democrat for Himself”, in Time. From the entry Sooner State
- Maeterlinck is gradually enubilating himself from those enchanted mists in which first he strayed.1903, “Saturday Reviews”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry enubilate
Meaning of stray
- noun Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- noun A person who is lost.
- noun An act of wandering off or going astray.
Questions about the past tense of stray
- What is the past tense of stray?
- The past tense of stray is strayed.
- What is the past participle of stray?
- The past participle of stray is strayed.
- Is stray a regular or irregular verb?
- Stray is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stray (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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