Past tense of swipe
regular verb
The past tense of swipe is swiped. The past participle is also swiped.
Forms of swipe
| Base form (V1) | swipe /swaɪp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | swiped |
| Past participle (V3) | swiped |
| Present participle | swiping |
| Third person singular | swipes /swaɪps/ |
Swiped in a sentence
- The cat swiped at the shoelace.
- He swiped his card at the door.
- He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.From the entry monkey
- The former president’s son Donald Jr. swiped at Ms.2022 December 9, Jonathan Weisman, Ken Bensinger, quoting Donald Trump Jr., “Blowback Over Griner’s Release Exposes Depth of America’s…. From the entry dei
- She felt dizzy and befuddled, almost like the time she had swiped a drink of her mother's homebrewed mead.2015, Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry homebrewed
Meaning of swipe
- verb To grab or bat quickly.
- verb To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
- verb To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.
Questions about the past tense of swipe
- What is the past tense of swipe?
- The past tense of swipe is swiped.
- What is the past participle of swipe?
- The past participle of swipe is swiped.
- Is swipe a regular or irregular verb?
- Swipe is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: swipe (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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