List of 616 English Irregular Verbs
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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
Abide
Abode/Abided
Aby/Abey Alight
Abought Alit/Alighted
Arise
Arose
Awake
Awoke
Past Participle Abode/Abided/Abidden Abought Alit/Alighted
Arisen
Awoken
To continue To reside\live
Definition
To make amends for something wrong
To get off a bus, train, etc.
To originate To get up from horizontal position, out of bed To come into existence
To stop sleeping and become conscious
B
Base Form
Past Simple
Backbite
Backbit
Backfit
Backfit
Backlight Backslide
Backlit Backslid
Be
Was/Were
Bear
Beat Become Bedight Befall
Beget Begin Begird Behight Behold Belay Bend
Bore
Beat Became Bedight/Bedighted Befell
Begot/Begat Began Begirt/Begirded Behight Beheld Belaid/Belayed Bent
Past Participle Backbitten
Backfit
Backlit Backslid/Backslidden
Been
Born/Borne
Beaten Become Bedight/Bedighted Befallen
Begotten Begun Begirt Behight/Behoten Beheld Belaid/Belayed Bent
Definition
To speak badly about someone
To fit new parts into an older machine that weren't available when the machine was made
To illuminate from behind (photography)
To stop making progress and start regressing
To exist, live or occur. To have as a quality or a state An auxiliary verb To carry To tolerate To give birth to
To hit repeatedly
To come into existence
To adorn, decorate
To happen To happen to somebody or something To cause something to happen To procreate
To start something
To encircle
To promise or vow To order
To become conscious of by seeing
To secure a boat with a rope To tie up
To curve something by distorting its shape
Irregular Verbs
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Bereave Beseech Beset
Bespeak
Bestrew Bestride Bet Betake Bethink Beweep Bid Bid
Bide
Bind Bite Blaw Bleed Blend Bless Blow Bottle-feed Bowstring
Break Breast-feed Breed Bring Broadcast Browbeat Build Burn Burst Bust
Bereft
Bereft/Bereaved
Besought/Beseeched Besought/Beseeched
Beset
Beset
To lose a relative through their death To deprive To ask someone very insistently to do something
To be restricted and occupied by difficulties
To be a signal or symbol of something
Bespoke
Bespoken
To set aside or reserve something
Bestrewed
Bestrode
Bet Betook Bethought Bewept Bid Bade
Bestrewed/Bestrewn
Bestridden
Bet Betaken Bethought Bewept Bid Bidden
Bided/Bode
Bided
Bound
Bound
Bit Blawed Bled Blended/Blent
Bitten Blawn Bled Blended/Blent
Blessed/Blest
Blessed/Blest
Blew
Blown
Bottle-fed
Bottle-fed
Bowstrung/Bowstringe d
Bowstrung
Broke
Broken
Breast-fed
Breast-fed
Bred
Bred
Brought
Brought
Broadcast/Broadcasted Broadcast/Broadcasted
Browbeat
Browbeat/Browbeaten
Built Burnt/Burned
Built Burnt/Burned
Burst
Burst
Bust
Bust
To ask for To cover a surface by throwing things about randomly To sit or stand with one leg on either side of something To risk money against the result of a future event
To go to a place
To think about something To remind yourself
To cry for or over someone or something
To make an offer of money or services
To command or urge someone to do something To wait for To tolerate To withstand To tie something with string, or similar, to hold it
To cut or hold with teeth
To blow
To lose blood through a cut in the skin
To mix together To wish or confer happiness To make holy
To move air, wind and gases
To feed a baby with a bottle
To strangle with the string from a bow
To cause something to separate into at least two pieces
To feed a baby with breast milk To produce animals or plants by controlling their reproduction To carry or convey something to the place where you are going
To transmit radio or TV signals To put pressure on someone or bully them to do something
To construct
To consume or be consumed by fire
To break something open, usually by internal pressure, such as a balloon with too much air in it To break
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Buy
Bought
Bought
To acquire something in exchange for money
C
Base Form
Past Simple
Cast
Cast
Catch
Caught
Past Participle Cast
Caught
Cheerlead
Cheerled
Cheerled
Chide Choose
Chid Chose
Chid/Chidden Chosen
Clap
Clapped/Clapt
Clapped/Clapt
Clear-cut
Clear-cut
Clear-cut
Cleave
Cleft/Cleaved/Clove Cleft/Cleaved/Cloven
Cleek
Clepe Cling Clothe Colorbreed Colorcast Come
Claught/Claucht/Cleek ed
Cleeked
Cleped
Cleped/Ycleped/Yclept
Clung
Clung
Clad/Clothed
Clad/Clothed
Colorbred Colorcast
Colorbred Colorcast
Came
Come
Cost Cost-cut Counterdraw Counterlight Cowrite Crash-dive Creep Creep-feed
Cost
Cost-cut Counterdrew
Counterlit
Cowrote Crash-dived/Crashdove Crept
Creep-fed
Cost Cost-cut Counterdrawn Counterlit Cowritten Crash-dived Crept Creep-fed
Crib-bite
Crib-bit
Crib-bitten
Cross-bite
Cross-bit
Cross-bitten
Cross-string Cross-strung
Cross-strung
Crossbreed Crossbred
Crossbred
Definition
To throw or project something
To receive To stop and hold a moving object, usually with your hands To make something unable to escape To cheer and support a team in an organised group To tell somebody off when they have done something wrong
To select
To hit your hands together to make a sound to show approval To make a loud noise, like thunder
To cut down all trees in an area
To separate or divide something, often with force To stick or hold together
To grasp or take hold of
To call or name
To hold on to or to stick to
To dress someone or provide them with clothes
To breed an animal to be of a particular color
To broadcast in color
To move towards or to arrive at a specified place, time or situation The amount of money required to buy something; it costs five dollars.
To redcuce costs or expenditure
To copy by tracing
To light something directly from opposite sides
To write with someone
To go down very quickly
To move along the ground lying down
To feed young animals in a special area that adult animals can't get in To bite its manger and swallow air (of a horse) To thwart or stop something happening by deception To place bass strings on a piano across the treble strings To breed animals or plants of different species, like a mule, which is a crossbreed of a donkey and a horse
Irregular Verbs
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Crosscut Crosslight Crow Cut
Crosscut Crosslit Crowed/Crew Cut
Crosscut Crosslit Crowed Cut
To move between scenes or stories in a film or narrative
To illuminate from different sides, but not directly opposite
To boast To utter a sound indicating pleasure
To break the surface of something with a knife or similar tool
D
Base Form Dare Daydream
Deal
Deep-freeze Dig Dight Dispread Disprove Dive Do Dogfight
Dow Draw Dream Drink
Drip-feed
Drive Dwell
Past Simple
Past Participle
Dared/Durst
Dared
Daydreamt/Daydream t
Daydreamt/Daydreamt
Dealt
Dealt
Deep-froze Dug Dight/Dighted Dispread Disproved Dived/Dove Did Dogfought
Deep-frozen Dug Dight/Dighted Dispread Disproven/Disproved Dived Done Dogfought
Dought/Dowed
Drew Dreamt/Dreamed Drank
Dought/Dowed
Drawn Dreamt/Dreamed Drunk
Drip-fed
Drip-fed
Drove Dwelt
Driven Dwelt
Definition To have sufficient courage
To have dream-like thoughts when a wake To have a fantasy
To distribute, especially playing cards in games To freeze or store frozen To suspend progress or activity To make a hole in the ground
To dictate orders
To spread out
To prove that something is fale or wrong To jump head first into water To fall quickly To perform or carry out To fight in aeroplanes To arrange a fight between dogs for sport To have the ability to do something To do well To make a picture using a pen or pencil
To see visual images while sleeping
To consume liquids To feed someone with fluids going into the vein To release information very slowly, bit by bit To operate and control a car or other vehicle
To reside or live somewhere
E
Base Form
Past Simple
Eat
Ate
End-run
End-ran
Engird
Engirt
Engrave
Engraved
Enwind
Enwound
Past Participle Eaten End-run Engirt Engraved/Engraven
Enwound
Definition
To consume solid food
To avoid doing something by cheating or deceit
To encircle, encompass
To carve letters or a pattern into the surface of something To make into a coil To wrap around something
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F
Base Form
Past Simple
Fall
Fell
Farebeat
Farebeat
Fast-cut Feed Feel
Fast-cut Fed Felt
Fight
Fought
Find
Found
Fit
Fit/Fitted
Flash-freeze Flee Fling Floodlight
Flash-froze Fled Flung Floodlit
Fly
Flew
Flyblow
Flyblew
Forbear Forbid
Forbore Forbade/Forbad
Force-feed
Force-fed
Fordo/Foredo Fordid
Forecast
Forecast/Forecasted
Forefeel
Forefelt
Forego Foreknow Forerun Foresee
Forewent Foreknew Foreran Foresaw
Foreshow
Foreshowed
Forespeak Foretell Forget Forgive Forlese
Forespoke Foretold Forgot Forgave Forlore
Past Participle Fallen Farebeaten Fast-cut Fed Felt Fought Found
Fit/Fitted
Flash-frozen Fled Flung Floodlit Flown Flyblown Forborne/Forborn Forbidden Force-fed Fordone Forecast/Forecasted Forefelt Foregone Foreknown Forerun Foreseen
Forshowed/Foreshown
Forespoken Foretold Forgotten Forgiven Forlorn
Definition
To move downwards or to the ground
To avoid paying fares when using public transport To cut quickly from one scene to another in a film
To give or supply food
To sense by touch To experience an emotion, or sensation To try to hurt or kill someone in combat or war To discover something either by chance or when looking for it To be the correct size, for clothes, etc. (fit/fit/fit) To measure someone for size (fit fit/fitted/ fit/fitted) To freeze food very rapidly to preserve taste and nutrients
To run away in order to find safety
To throw or move something suddenly
To use powerful lights to illuminate something outside at night To move through the air To travel by aeroplane To contaminate by laying eggs, the way a fly does
Not to use or talk about something
To prohibit
To feed someone who refuses or doesn't want to eat
To ruin or destroy
To predict the future
To have a feeling before something happens To have a premonition To preceed something To go without something
To know something beforehand
To go before something To show that something is going to happen
To predict or see the future
To show something or make it known beforehand To foretell To predict To speak of something beforehand
To predict the future
To be unable to remember something
To pardon or stop being angry with someone who has offended you
To lose completely
Irregular Verbs
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Forsake Forswear Fraught
Free-fall
Freeze Frostbite
Forsook Forswore Fraught/Fraughted
Forsaken Forsworn Fraught/Fraughted
Free-fell
Free-fallen
Froze Frostbit
Frozen Frostbitten
To give something up To abandon
To make a false promise or oath
To stock To load a ship, etc To hire a ship, etc
To drop or fall suddenly To fall through the air without opening a parachute
To make liquids into solids by cold temperatures To store food below zero degrees centigrade
To injure or damage part of the body through extreme cold
G
Base Form Gainsay Geld Get
Past Simple Gainsaid Gelded/Gelt Got
Ghostwrite Ghostwrote
Gild Gin
Gilt/Gilded Gan
Gird
Girded/Girt
Give
Gave
Gnaw
Gnawed
Go
Went
Grave
Graved
Grind Grow
Ground Grew
Past Participle Gainsaid Gelded/Gelt Got/Gotten Ghostwritten Gilt/Gilded Gan Girded/Girt Given
Gnawed/Gnawn
Gone/Been
Graven/Graved
Ground Grown
Definition To contradict or deny To castrate an animal To obtain, catch or receive To write for someone else, who will put their name as the author To cover something with a thin layer of gold To begin something To secure or encirle something with a belt or bend To offer something as a present To bite or chew
To cause worry To travel to a place To dig To carve To fix in the memory To break something into a powder To increase in size
H
Base Form Hagride Halterbreak
Hamstring
Hand-feed Hand-ride Handsew Handwrite Hang
Past Simple
Past Participle
Definition
Hagrode
Hagridden
To torment or cause nightmares
Halterbroke
Halterbroken
To break a horse in, to get it used to wearing a halter
Hamstrung/Hamstring ed
Hamstrung/Hamstringed
To make things difficult for someone doing something
Hand-fed
Hand-fed
To give food by hand
Hand-rode
Hand-ridden
To control an animal by hand
Handsewed
Handsewn/Handsewed To sew by hand
Handwrote
Handwritten
To write with a pen or pencil rather than a word processor
Hung/Hanged
Hung/Hanged
To suspend from a support
Irregular Verbs
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Have
Hear Heave Hew Hide
Had
Heard Heaved/Hove Hewed Hid
Hight
Hit Hoise Hoist Hold
House-sit Housebreak Hurt
Hote/Hight
Hit Hoised/Hoist Hoist/Hoisted Held
House-sat Housebroke Hurt
Had
Heard Heaved/Hove Hewn Hidden
Hoten
Hit Hoised/Hoist Hoist/Hoisted Held House-sat Housebroken Hurt
To execute someone by supending them by the neck To possess To do An auxiliary verb
To detect or perceive sound
To lift something heavy To throw something heavy
To cut things into pieces
To conceal or put something where it cannot be seen
To name To promise To command
To touch somebody or something with force
To hoist or lift
To raise or lift using ropes, etc
To secure something in your hand To contain
To stay in someone's house to look after it while they are away
To train an animal to live in a house
To cause pain, injury or stress To experience pain, injury or stress
I
Base Form Inbreed
Indwell Inhold Inlay Input Inset
Interblend
Interbreed Intercut Intergrave Interlay Interset Interweave Interwind Inweave Inwind
Past Simple
Past Participle
Definition
Inbred
Inbred
To produce babies with health problems by sexual relations between close relatives
Indwelt
Indwelt
To inhabit To exist as a guiding principle
Inheld
Inheld
To have as an inherent characteristic
Inlaid
Inlaid
To put a different material inside another for decoration, with a flat surface
Input/Inputted
Input/Inputted
To enter data into a computer
Inset
Inset
To put a picture or graphic inside a lerger one
Interblended/Interblen t
Interblended/Interblent
To blend things together
Interbred
Interbred
To mix species or groups sexually
Intercut
Intercut
To move between different scenes or stories in a film or narrative
Intergraved
Intergraved/Intergraven To carve or engrave in alternate sections
Interlaid
Interlaid
To place among or between things
Interset
Interset
To set among or between things
Interwove
Interwoven
To join or mix together
Interwound
Interwound
To wind together or intertwine
Inwove/Inweaved
Inwoven/Inweaved
To weave things together
Inwound
Inwound
To wrap or coil around
J
Irregular Verbs
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Base Form
Past Simple
Jerry-build
Jerry-built
K
Base Form
Past Simple
Keep
Kept
Ken Kneel Knit
Know
Kent/Kenned Knelt/Kneeled Knit/Knitted
Knew
Past Participle Jerry-built
Past Participle Kept Kent/Kenned Knelt/Kneeled Knit/Knitted Known
L
Base Form
Past Simple
Lade
Laded
Landslide
Landslid/Landslided
Lay
Laid
Lead
Led
Lean Leap Learn Leave Lend Lep Let Lie Light Linebreed Lip-Read
Leant/Leaned Leapt/Leaped Learnt/Learned Left Lent Lept Let Lay Lit Linebred Lip-Read
Lose
Lost
Past Participle Laden/Laded Landslid/Landslided Laid Led
Leant/Leaned Leapt/Leaped Learnt/Learned Left Lent Lept Let Lain Lit Linebred Lip-Read
Lost
M
Base Form
Past Simple
Make
Made
Mean Meet
Meant Met
Past Participle Made
Meant Met
Definition To build something cheaply and badly
Definition To have possession To make somebody or something stay in a particular place To know To support yourself on your knees To make clothes such as pullovers out of wool To be acquainted with To have correctly in your memory
Definition To load (put goods onto) a ship To win a convincing and easy victory in an election To put something in a horizontal position To take someone somewhere or guide them To be in command To place something at an incline for support against something To jump To acquire knowledge To go out of a place To give somebody money that must be returned To leap To allow something to happen To allow someone to do something To get into or be in a horizontal position To make something burn Breed animals from a particular family To work out what someone is saying from the movements of their mouth Not to have something because you do not know where it is
Definition To create or construct something To cause somebody to do something To perform an action To signify To intend To make somebody's acquaintance
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