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List of 616 English IrregularVerbs

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A comprehensive list of 616 English irregular verbs, including their base form, past simple, past participle and definitions. Click on Show Forms to see the 3rd person singular and the present participle instead of the definitions. If you click on Show Groups, you will see the verbs in groups that change in the same way.

A

 

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle	Definition
Abide	Abode/Abided	Abode/Abided/Abidden	To continue To reside\live
Aby/Abey	Abought	Abought	To make amends for something wrong
Alight	Alit/Alighted	Alit/Alighted	To get off a bus, train, etc.
Arise	Arose	Arisen	To originate To get up from horizontal position, out of bed To come into existence
Awake	Awoke	Awoken	To stop sleeping and become conscious
B
Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle	Definition
Backbite	Backbit	Backbitten	To speak badly about someone
Backfit	Backfit	Backfit	To fit new parts into an older machine that weren't available when the machine was made
Backlight	Backlit	Backlit	To illuminate from behind (photography)
Backslide	Backslid	Backslid/Backslidden	To stop making progress and start regressing
Be	Was/Were	Been	To exist, live or occur. To have as a quality or a state An auxiliary verb
Bear	Bore	Born/Borne	To carry To tolerate To give birth to
Beat	Beat	Beaten	To hit repeatedly
Become	Became	Become	To come into existence
Bedight	Bedight/Bedighted	Bedight/Bedighted	To adorn, decorate
Befall	Befell	Befallen	To happen To happen to somebody or something
Beget	Begot/Begat	Begotten	To cause something to happen To procreate
Begin	Began	Begun	To start something
Begird	Begirt/Begirded	Begirt	To encircle
Behight	Behight	Behight/Behoten	To promise or vow To order
Behold	Beheld	Beheld	To become conscious of by seeing
Belay	Belaid/Belayed	Belaid/Belayed	To secure a boat with a rope To tie up
Bend	Bent	Bent	To curve something by distorting its shape

Bereave	Bereft	Bereft/Bereaved	To lose a relative through their death To deprive
Beseech	Besought/Beseeched	Besought/Beseeched	To ask someone very insistently to do something
Beset	Beset	Beset	To be restricted and occupied by difficulties
Bespeak	Bespoke	Bespoken	To be a signal or symbol of something To set aside or reserve something To ask for
Bestrew	Bestrewed	Bestrewed/Bestrewn	To cover a surface by throwing things about randomly
Bestride	Bestrode	Bestridden	To sit or stand with one leg on either side of something
Bet	Bet	Bet	To risk money against the result of a future event
Betake	Betook	Betaken	To go to a place
Bethink	Bethought	Bethought	To think about something To remind yourself
Beweep	Bewept	Bewept	To cry for or over someone or something
Bid	Bid	Bid	To make an offer of money or services
Bid	Bade	Bidden	To command or urge someone to do something
Bide	Bided/Bode	Bided	To wait for To tolerate To withstand
Bind	Bound	Bound	To tie something with string, or similar, to hold it
Bite	Bit	Bitten	To cut or hold with teeth
Blaw	Blawed	Blawn	To blow
Bleed	Bled	Bled	To lose blood through a cut in the skin
Blend	Blended/Blent	Blended/Blent	To mix together
Bless	Blessed/Blest	Blessed/Blest	To wish or confer happiness To make holy
Blow	Blew	Blown	To move air, wind and gases
Bottle-feed	Bottle-fed	Bottle-fed	To feed a baby with a bottle
Bowstring	Bowstrung/Bowstringe d	Bowstrung	To strangle with the string from a bow
Break	Broke	Broken	To cause something to separate into at least two pieces
Breast-feed	Breast-fed	Breast-fed	To feed a baby with breast milk
Breed	Bred	Bred	To produce animals or plants by controlling their reproduction
Bring	Brought	Brought	To carry or convey something to the place where you are going
Broadcast	Broadcast/Broadcasted	Broadcast/Broadcasted	To transmit radio or TV signals
Browbeat	Browbeat	Browbeat/Browbeaten	To put pressure on someone or bully them to do something
Build	Built	Built	To construct
Burn	Burnt/Burned	Burnt/Burned	To consume or be consumed by fire
Burst	Burst	Burst	To break something open, usually by internal pressure, such as a balloon with too much air in it
Bust	Bust	Bust	To break

Buy

Bought

Bought

To acquire something in exchange for money

 

C

 

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle	Definition
Cast	Cast	Cast	To throw or project something
Catch	Caught	Caught	To receive To stop and hold a moving object, usually with your hands To make something unable to escape
Cheerlead	Cheerled	Cheerled	To cheer and support a team in an organised group
Chide	Chid	Chid/Chidden	To tell somebody off when they have done something wrong
Choose	Chose	Chosen	To select
Clap	Clapped/Clapt	Clapped/Clapt	To hit your hands together to make a sound to show approval To make a loud noise, like thunder
Clear-cut	Clear-cut	Clear-cut	To cut down all trees in an area
Cleave	Cleft/Cleaved/Clove	Cleft/Cleaved/Cloven	To separate or divide something, often with force To stick or hold together
Cleek	Claught/Claucht/Cleek ed	Cleeked	To grasp or take hold of
Clepe	Cleped	Cleped/Ycleped/Yclept	To call or name
Cling	Clung	Clung	To hold on to or to stick to
Clothe	Clad/Clothed	Clad/Clothed	To dress someone or provide them with clothes
Colorbreed	Colorbred	Colorbred	To breed an animal to be of a particular color
Colorcast	Colorcast	Colorcast	To broadcast in color
Come	Came	Come	To move towards or to arrive at a specified place, time or situation
Cost	Cost	Cost	The amount of money required to buy something; it costs five dollars.
Cost-cut	Cost-cut	Cost-cut	To redcuce costs or expenditure
Counterdraw	Counterdrew	Counterdrawn	To copy by tracing
Counterlight	Counterlit	Counterlit	To light something directly from opposite sides
Cowrite	Cowrote	Cowritten	To write with someone
Crash-dive	Crash-dived/Crash- dove	Crash-dived	To go down very quickly
Creep	Crept	Crept	To move along the ground lying down
Creep-feed	Creep-fed	Creep-fed	To feed young animals in a special area that adult animals can't get in
Crib-bite	Crib-bit	Crib-bitten	To bite its manger and swallow air (of a horse)
Cross-bite	Cross-bit	Cross-bitten	To thwart or stop something happening by deception
Cross-string	Cross-strung	Cross-strung	To place bass strings on a piano across the treble strings
Crossbreed	Crossbred	Crossbred	To breed animals or plants of different species, like a mule, which is a crossbreed of a donkey and a horse

Crosscut	Crosscut	Crosscut	To move between scenes or stories in a film or narrative
Crosslight	Crosslit	Crosslit	To illuminate from different sides, but not directly opposite
Crow	Crowed/Crew	Crowed	To boast To utter a sound indicating pleasure
Cut	Cut	Cut	To break the surface of something with a knife or similar tool

Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition Dare Dared/Durst Dared To have sufficient courage Daydream Daydreamt/Daydream t Daydreamt/Daydreamt To have dream-like thoughts when a wake To have a fantasy Deal Dealt Dealt To distribute, especially playing cards in games Deep-freeze Deep-froze Deep-frozen To freeze or store frozen To suspend progress or activity Dig Dug Dug To make a hole in the ground Dight Dight/Dighted Dight/Dighted To dictate orders Dispread Dispread Dispread To spread out Disprove Disproved Disproven/Disproved To prove that something is fale or wrong Dive Dived/Dove Dived To jump head first into water To fall quickly Do Did Done To perform or carry out Dogfight Dogfought Dogfought To fight in aeroplanes To arrange a fight between dogs for sport Dow Dought/Dowed Dought/Dowed To have the ability to do something To do well Draw Drew Drawn To make a picture using a pen or pencil Dream Dreamt/Dreamed Dreamt/Dreamed To see visual images while sleeping Drink Drank Drunk To consume liquids Drip-feed Drip-fed Drip-fed To feed someone with fluids going into the vein To release information very slowly, bit by bit Drive Drove Driven To operate and control a car or other vehicle Dwell Dwelt Dwelt To reside or live somewhere   E       Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition Eat Ate Eaten To consume solid food End-run End-ran End-run To avoid doing something by cheating or deceit Engird Engirt Engirt To encircle, encompass Engrave Engraved Engraved/Engraven To carve letters or a pattern into the surface of something Enwind Enwound Enwound To make into a coil To wrap around something         Irregular Verbs           4 of 21         UsingEnglish.c

D

 

F

 

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle	Definition
Fall	Fell	Fallen	To move downwards or to the ground
Farebeat	Farebeat	Farebeaten	To avoid paying fares when using public transport
Fast-cut	Fast-cut	Fast-cut	To cut quickly from one scene to another in a film
Feed	Fed	Fed	To give or supply food
Feel	Felt	Felt	To sense by touch To experience an emotion, or sensation
Fight	Fought	Fought	To try to hurt or kill someone in combat or war
Find	Found	Found	To discover something either by chance or when looking for it
Fit	Fit/Fitted	Fit/Fitted	To be the correct size, for clothes, etc. (fit/fit/fit) To measure someone for size (fit fit/fitted/ fit/fitted)
Flash-freeze	Flash-froze	Flash-frozen	To freeze food very rapidly to preserve taste and nutrients
Flee	Fled	Fled	To run away in order to find safety
Fling	Flung	Flung	To throw or move something suddenly
Floodlight	Floodlit	Floodlit	To use powerful lights to illuminate something outside at night
Fly	Flew	Flown	To move through the air To travel by aeroplane
Flyblow	Flyblew	Flyblown	To contaminate by laying eggs, the way a fly does
Forbear	Forbore	Forborne/Forborn	Not to use or talk about something
Forbid	Forbade/Forbad	Forbidden	To prohibit
Force-feed	Force-fed	Force-fed	To feed someone who refuses or doesn't want to eat
Fordo/Foredo	Fordid	Fordone	To ruin or destroy
Forecast	Forecast/Forecasted	Forecast/Forecasted	To predict the future
Forefeel	Forefelt	Forefelt	To have a feeling before something happens To have a premonition
Forego	Forewent	Foregone	To preceed something To go without something
Foreknow	Foreknew	Foreknown	To know something beforehand
Forerun	Foreran	Forerun	To go before something To show that something is going to happen
Foresee	Foresaw	Foreseen	To predict or see the future
Foreshow	Foreshowed	Forshowed/Foreshown	To show something or make it known beforehand To foretell
Forespeak	Forespoke	Forespoken	To predict To speak of something beforehand
Foretell	Foretold	Foretold	To predict the future
Forget	Forgot	Forgotten	To be unable to remember something
Forgive	Forgave	Forgiven	To pardon or stop being angry with someone who has offended you
Forlese	Forlore	Forlorn	To lose completely

Forsake	Forsook	Forsaken	To give something up To abandon
Forswear	Forswore	Forsworn	To make a false promise or oath
Fraught	Fraught/Fraughted	Fraught/Fraughted	To stock To load a ship, etc To hire a ship, etc
Free-fall	Free-fell	Free-fallen	To drop or fall suddenly To fall through the air without opening a parachute
Freeze	Froze	Frozen	To make liquids into solids by cold temperatures To store food below zero degrees centigrade
Frostbite	Frostbit	Frostbitten	To injure or damage part of the body through extreme cold

Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition Gainsay Gainsaid Gainsaid To contradict or deny Geld Gelded/Gelt Gelded/Gelt To castrate an animal Get Got Got/Gotten To obtain, catch or receive Ghostwrite Ghostwrote Ghostwritten To write for someone else, who will put their name as the author Gild Gilt/Gilded Gilt/Gilded To cover something with a thin layer of gold Gin Gan Gan To begin something Gird Girded/Girt Girded/Girt To secure or encirle something with a belt or bend Give Gave Given To offer something as a present Gnaw Gnawed Gnawed/Gnawn To bite or chew   To cause worry Go Went Gone/Been To travel to a place Grave Graved Graven/Graved To dig To carve To fix in the memory Grind Ground Ground To break something into a powder Grow Grew Grown To increase in size   H       Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition Hagride Hagrode Hagridden To torment or cause nightmares Halterbreak Halterbroke Halterbroken To break a horse in, to get it used to wearing a halter Hamstring Hamstrung/Hamstring ed Hamstrung/Hamstringed To make things difficult for someone doing something Hand-feed Hand-fed Hand-fed To give food by hand Hand-ride Hand-rode Hand-ridden To control an animal by hand Handsew Handsewed Handsewn/Handsewed To sew by hand Handwrite Handwrote Handwritten To write with a pen or pencil rather than a word processor Hang Hung/Hanged Hung/Hanged To suspend from a support     Irregular Verbs       6 of 21     UsingEnglish.c

G

			To execute someone by supending them by the neck
Have	Had	Had	To possess To do An auxiliary verb
Hear	Heard	Heard	To detect or perceive sound
Heave	Heaved/Hove	Heaved/Hove	To lift something heavy To throw something heavy
Hew	Hewed	Hewn	To cut things into pieces
Hide	Hid	Hidden	To conceal or put something where it cannot be seen
Hight	Hote/Hight	Hoten	To name To promise To command
Hit	Hit	Hit	To touch somebody or something with force
Hoise	Hoised/Hoist	Hoised/Hoist	To hoist or lift
Hoist	Hoist/Hoisted	Hoist/Hoisted	To raise or lift using ropes, etc
Hold	Held	Held	To secure something in your hand To contain
House-sit	House-sat	House-sat	To stay in someone's house to look after it while they are away
Housebreak	Housebroke	Housebroken	To train an animal to live in a house
Hurt	Hurt	Hurt	To cause pain, injury or stress To experience pain, injury or stress

 

I

 

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle	Definition
Inbreed	Inbred	Inbred	To produce babies with health problems by sexual relations between close relatives
Indwell	Indwelt	Indwelt	To inhabit To exist as a guiding principle
Inhold	Inheld	Inheld	To have as an inherent characteristic
Inlay	Inlaid	Inlaid	To put a different material inside another for decoration, with a flat surface
Input	Input/Inputted	Input/Inputted	To enter data into a computer
Inset	Inset	Inset	To put a picture or graphic inside a lerger one
Interblend	Interblended/Interblen t	Interblended/Interblent	To blend things together
Interbreed	Interbred	Interbred	To mix species or groups sexually
Intercut	Intercut	Intercut	To move between different scenes or stories in a film or narrative
Intergrave	Intergraved	Intergraved/Intergraven	To carve or engrave in alternate sections
Interlay	Interlaid	Interlaid	To place among or between things
Interset	Interset	Interset	To set among or between things
Interweave	Interwove	Interwoven	To join or mix together
Interwind	Interwound	Interwound	To wind together or intertwine
Inweave	Inwove/Inweaved	Inwoven/Inweaved	To weave things together
Inwind	Inwound	Inwound	To wrap or coil around

 

J

Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition Jerry-build Jerry-built Jerry-built To build something cheaply and badly   K       Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition Keep Kept Kept To have possession To make somebody or something stay in a particular place Ken Kent/Kenned Kent/Kenned To know Kneel Knelt/Kneeled Knelt/Kneeled To support yourself on your knees Knit Knit/Knitted Knit/Knitted To make clothes such as pullovers out of wool Know Knew Known To be acquainted with To have correctly in your memory   L       Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition Lade Laded Laden/Laded To load (put goods onto) a ship Landslide Landslid/Landslided Landslid/Landslided To win a convincing and easy victory in an election Lay Laid Laid To put something in a horizontal position Lead Led Led To take someone somewhere or guide them To be in command Lean Leant/Leaned Leant/Leaned To place something at an incline for support against something Leap Leapt/Leaped Leapt/Leaped To jump Learn Learnt/Learned Learnt/Learned To acquire knowledge Leave Left Left To go out of a place Lend Lent Lent To give somebody money that must be returned Lep Lept Lept To leap Let Let Let To allow something to happen To allow someone to do something Lie Lay Lain To get into or be in a horizontal position Light Lit Lit To make something burn Linebreed Linebred Linebred Breed animals from a particular family Lip-Read Lip-Read Lip-Read To work out what someone is saying from the movements of their mouth Lose Lost Lost Not to have something because you do not know where it is   M       Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition Make Made Made To create or construct something To cause somebody to do something To perform an action Mean Meant Meant To signify To intend Meet Met Met To make somebody's acquaintance     Irregular Verbs       8 of 21     UsingEnglish.c

 

			To be in the same place as somebody
Melt	Melted	Molten/Melted	To change from solid into a liquid as the temperature goes up
Misbecome	Misbecame	Misbecome	Not to suit
Miscast	Miscast	Miscast	To choose the wrong actor for a role
Mischoose	Mischose	Mischosen	To choose wrongly
Miscut	Miscut	Miscut	To cut something wrongly or badly
Misdeal	Misdealt	Misdealt	To distribute playing cards wrongly in a game
Misdo	Misdid	Misdone	To harm or injure
Misfall	Misfell	Misfallen	To happen unluckily
Misfeed	Misfed	Misfed	To feed incorrectly To jam printers, photocpiers, etc, by feeding the paper incorrectly
Misgive	Misgave	Misgiven	To become suspicious or worried
Mishear	Misheard	Misheard	To hear something incorrectly
Mishit	Mishit	Mishit	To hit a ball badly or inaccurately
Misknow	Misknew	Misknown	To have the wrong idea about something
Mislay	Mislaid	Mislaid	To lose or put something where you cannot find it
Mislead	Misled	Misled	To make someone behave wrongly To deceive
Mislearn	Mislearnt/Mislearned	Mislearnt/Mislearned	To learn wrongly
Misread	Misread	Misread	To read something incorrectly
Missay	Missaid	Missaid	To say something incorrectly To talk badly about someone
Missend	Missent	Missent	To send to the wrong place or person
Misset	Misset	Misset	To set or place wrongly or incorrectly
Misspeak	Misspoke	Misspoken	To say or pronounce something wrongly   To say something that is incorrect or inaccurate
Misspell	Misspelt/Misspelled	Misspelt/Misspelled	To write a word without using the correct letters
Misspend	Misspent	Misspent	To waste time or money
Misswear	Misswore	Missworn	To swear or make an oath falsely
Mistake	Mistook	Mistaken	Not to understand To confuse somebody with someone else
Misteach	Mistaught	Mistaught	To teach wrongly or incorrectly
Mistell	Mistold	Mistold	To tell something wrongly
Misthink	Misthought	Misthought	To have mistaken thoughts or ideas
Misunderstand	Misunderstood	Misunderstood	Not to understand
Miswear	Misswore	Misworn	To wear badly
Miswed	Miswed/Miswedded	Miswed/Miswedded	To marry wrongly
Miswrite	Miswrote	Miswritten	To write something incorrectly
Mow	Mowed	Mown	To cut grass or cereals

 

 

 

N

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle		Definition
Naysay	Naysaid	Naysaid		To oppose or criticise
Nose-dive	Nose-dived/Nose-dove	Nose-dived/Nose-dove		To dive or plunge nose first (aircraft)
O
Base Form	Past Simple		Past Participle	Definition
Offset	Offset		Offset	To compenaste or counterbalance
Outbid	Outbid		Outbid	To offer more money than someone in an auction or sale
Outbreed	Outbred		Outbred	To breed faster than others
Outdo	Outdid		Outdone	To do better than someone
Outdraw	Outdrew		Outdrawn	To pull out To pull a gun faster than an opponent
Outdrink	Outdrank		Outdrunk	To drink more than someone else, usually alcohol
Outdrive	Outdrove		Outdriven	To drive faster or better
Outfight	Outfought		Outfought	To fight better than someone
Outfly	Outflew		Outflown	To fly faster or further
Outgrow	Outgrew		Outgrown	To grow faster than something or someone To become too big or mature for something
Outlay	Outlaid		Outlaid	To spend money for a particular purpose
Outleap	Outleapt/Outleaped		Outleapt/Outleaped	To jump or leap further or higher
Output	Output/Outputted		Output/Outputted	To put out or produce
Outride	Outrode		Outridden	To ride faster than someone
Outrun	Outran		Outrun	To run or go faster than someone
Outsee	Outsaw		Outseen	To see further To have greater foresight
Outsell	Outsold		Outsold	To sell more than something or someone
Outshine	Outshone		Outshone	To be better than someone
Outshoot	Outshot		Outshot	To shoot faster or better
Outsing	Outsang		Outsung	To sing better or louder than someone
Outsit	Outsat		Outsat	To sit for longer than someone
Outsleep	Outslept		Outslept	To sleep for longer than someone
Outsmell	Outsmelt/Outsmelled		Outsmelt/Outsmelled	To have a better sense of smell
Outspeak	Outspoke		Outspoken	To speak better or more than someone
Outspeed	Outsped		Outsped	To go faster than someone or something
Outspend	Outspent		Outspent	To spend more than someone
Outspin	Outspun		Outspun	To finish or die
Outspring	Outsprang		Outsprung	To spring or jump out
Outstand	Outstood		Outstood	To be clearly different or better
Outswear	Outswore		Outsworn	To exceed someone in swearing- oaths or bad language
Outswim	Outswam		Outswum	To swim faster or further than someone
Outtell	Outtold		Outtold	To be better or exceed in telling or calculating
Outthink	Outthought		Outthought	To think better ideas than someone
Outthrow	Outthrew		Outthrown	To throw further or more accurately

Outwear	Outwore	Outworn	To last longer (of materials, clothes, etc)
Outwind	Outwound	Outwound	To unloose
Outwork	Outworked/Outwrought	Outworked/Outwrough t	To work harder or better
Outwrite	Outwrote	Outwritten	To be better at writing
Overbear	Overbore	Overborne	To use force or authority to control
Overbid	Overbid	Overbid	To bid more something is worth To bid more than you can win in a card game
Overblow	Overblew	Overblown	To become subdued To blow away To force too much
Overbreed	Overbred	Overbred	To breed too much so that features become excessive
Overbuild	Overbuilt	Overbuilt	To build too much, overdevelop
Overbuy	Overbought	Overbought	To buy too much   To pay too much
Overcast	Overcast	Overcast	To become cloudy To sew with overcast stitiches (long slanting stitches)
Overcome	Overcame	Overcome	To master a problem or difficult situation To become helpless because of excessive emotions or physical difficulties
Overcut	Overcut	Overcut	To cut down more trees than permitted
Overdo	Overdid	Overdone	To do something to excess To cook something too much
Overdraw	Overdrew	Overdrawn	To take money out of an account so that a negative balance results
Overdrink	Overdrank	Overdrunk	To drink too much
Overdrive	Overdrove	Overdriven	To drive or work something too hard
Overeat	Overate	Overeaten	To eat too much
Overfeed	Overfed	Overfed	To give too much food
Overfly	Overflew	Overflown	To fly over a place
Overgrow	Overgrew	Overgrown	To grow too<