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.

Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition

To continue
Abide Abode/Abided Abode/Abided/Abidden 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.

To originate
Arise Arose Arisen To get up from horizontal position, out of bed
To come into existence
Awake Awoke Awoken To stop sleeping and become conscious

Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Definition

Backbite Backbit Backbitten To speak badly about someone
To fit new parts into an older machine that
Backfit Backfit Backfit 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

To exist, live or occur.
Be Was/Were Been To have as a quality or a state
An auxiliary verb
To carry
Bear Bore Born/Borne 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

To happen
Befall Befell Befallen To happen to somebody or something
To cause something to happen
Beget Begot/Begat Begotten To procreate
Begin Began Begun To start something

Begird Begirt/Begirded Begirt To encircle

To promise or vow
Behight Behight Behight/Behoten To order
Behold Beheld Beheld To become conscious of by seeing
To secure a boat with a rope
Belay Belaid/Belayed Belaid/Belayed To tie up
Bend Bent Bent To curve something by distorting its shape

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 To lose a relative through their death
Bereave Bereft Bereft/Bereaved To deprive
To ask someone very insistently to do
Beseech Besought/Beseeched Besought/Beseeched something
Beset Beset Beset To be restricted and occupied by difficulties
To be a signal or symbol of something

Bespeak Bespoke Bespoken To set aside or reserve something

To ask for
To cover a surface by throwing things about
Bestrew Bestrewed Bestrewed/Bestrewn randomly
To sit or stand with one leg on either side of
Bestride Bestrode Bestridden something
To risk money against the result of a future
Bet Bet Bet event
Betake Betook Betaken To go to a place
To think about something
Bethink Bethought Bethought 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

To command or urge someone to do
Bid Bade Bidden something
To wait for
Bide Bided/Bode Bided To tolerate
To withstand
To tie something with string, or similar, to
Bind Bound Bound 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

To wish or confer happiness
Bless Blessed/Blest Blessed/Blest 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

Bowstrung/Bowstringe
Bowstring Bowstrung To strangle with the string from a bow
d
To cause something to separate into at least
Break Broke Broken two pieces
Breast-feed Breast-fed Breast-fed To feed a baby with breast milk
To produce animals or plants by controlling
Breed Bred Bred their reproduction
To carry or convey something to the place
Bring Brought Brought where you are going
Broadcast Broadcast/Broadcasted Broadcast/Broadcasted To transmit radio or TV signals
To put pressure on someone or bully them to
Browbeat Browbeat Browbeat/Browbeaten do something
Build Built Built To construct

Burn Burnt/Burned Burnt/Burned To consume or be consumed by fire

To break something open, usually by internal
Burst Burst Burst pressure, such as a balloon with too much air
in it
Bust Bust Bust To break

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