Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to arrow
Participle: arrowed
Gerund: arrowing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | arrow |
| you | arrow |
| he;she;it | arrows |
| we | arrow |
| you | arrow |
| they | arrow |
Perfect
| I | have arrowed |
| you | have arrowed |
| he;she;it | has arrowed |
| we | have arrowed |
| you | have arrowed |
| they | have arrowed |
Past
| I | arrowed |
| you | arrowed |
| he;she;it | arrowed |
| we | arrowed |
| you | arrowed |
| they | arrowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had arrowed |
| you | had arrowed |
| he;she;it | had arrowed |
| we | had arrowed |
| you | had arrowed |
| they | had arrowed |
Future
| I | will arrow |
| you | will arrow |
| he;she;it | will arrow |
| we | will arrow |
| you | will arrow |
| they | will arrow |
Future Perfect
| I | will have arrowed |
| you | will have arrowed |
| he;she;it | will have arrowed |
| we | will have arrowed |
| you | will have arrowed |
| they | will have arrowed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | arrow |
| you | arrow |
| he;she;it | arrow |
| we | arrow |
| you | arrow |
| they | arrow |
Perfect
| I | have arrowed |
| you | have arrowed |
| he;she;it | have arrowed |
| we | have arrowed |
| you | have arrowed |
| they | have arrowed |
Imperfect
| I | arrowed |
| you | arrowed |
| he;she;it | arrowed |
| we | arrowed |
| you | arrowed |
| they | arrowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had arrowed |
| you | had arrowed |
| he;she;it | had arrowed |
| we | had arrowed |
| you | had arrowed |
| they | had arrowed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would arrow |
| you | would arrow |
| he;she;it | would arrow |
| we | would arrow |
| you | would arrow |
| they | would arrow |
Perfect
| I | would have arrowed |
| you | would have arrowed |
| he;she;it | would have arrowed |
| we | would have arrowed |
| you | would have arrowed |
| they | would have arrowed |
Imperative
| you | arrow |
| we | Let's arrow |
| you | arrow |
Verbs conjugated like 'arrow'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'arrow'
farrow,
harrow,
marrow,
narrow,
allow,
apron,
armor,
arr,
arras,
array,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (“arrow”) (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu (“arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *arhwō (“arrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv, ørvur (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Asturian and Leonese arcu (“arrow”), Aragonese, Galician, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish arco (“arrow”), Catalan, French, and Romanian arc (“arrow”), Latin arcus (“bow”). Doublet of arch, arc, arco, and arcus.
Sample Sentences
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Above his head, a startled bird arrows up, into the sun. [2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 279:]
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Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner. [2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:]
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The more vigorous and luxuriant the vegetation of a field of canes, the less will the tendency to flowering be shewn; whereas nearly all the canes will be found to arrow if the soil be poor and the vegetation meagre. [1848, Louis Antoine A.G. De Verteuil, Three essays on the cultivation of the sugar-cane in Trinidad, page 12:]
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In some sugar cane countries efforts are made to harvest the cane crops before the period of arrowing, and in Barbados it is thought that a considerable loss occurs in the yield of sugar if the harvest be delayed and only completed through the arrowing season. [1903, Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 30, page 374:]
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It is easily grown and arrows freely. It appears to be of moderate merit only, but might be cautiously tried on a small scale. [1905, Sugar-Cane Experiments in the Leeward Islands:]
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Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.
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Just because I never come for meeting … my boss arrow me to do this job. [2011, Susan Tsang, Audrey Perera, Singapore at Random, →ISBN, page 36:]