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Past tense of traverse

regular verb

The past tense of traverse is traversed. The past participle is also traversed.

Forms of traverse

Base form (V1)traverse /tɹəˈvɝs/
Past tense (V2)traversed /tɹəˈvɝst/
Past participle (V3)traversed /tɹəˈvɝst/
Present participletraversing
Third person singulartraverses

Traversed in a sentence

  • the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain
  • The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.
  • Sarner's being a baby about his resurrection.” “I traversed the black mountain.2023 August 14, Dominic Dierkes, “The Ping Pong Table” (17:50 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Korvo…. From the entry expense
  • In the program given above, tree is constructed and is traversed in inorder, preorder and postorder traversal.2006, ISRD Group, Data Structures Using C, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, page 254. From the entry preorder
  • But no one had ever traversed the Northwest Passage under wind power alone.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 586. From the entry arctic

Meaning of traverse

  1. noun A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
  2. noun A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
  3. noun A screen or partition.

Full definition of traverse

Questions about the past tense of traverse

What is the past tense of traverse?
The past tense of traverse is traversed.
What is the past participle of traverse?
The past participle of traverse is traversed.
Is traverse a regular or irregular verb?
Traverse is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: traverse (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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