Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to belt
Participle: belted
Gerund: belting
Indicative
Present
| I | belt |
| you | belt |
| he;she;it | belts |
| we | belt |
| you | belt |
| they | belt |
Perfect
| I | have belted |
| you | have belted |
| he;she;it | has belted |
| we | have belted |
| you | have belted |
| they | have belted |
Past
| I | belted |
| you | belted |
| he;she;it | belted |
| we | belted |
| you | belted |
| they | belted |
Pluperfect
| I | had belted |
| you | had belted |
| he;she;it | had belted |
| we | had belted |
| you | had belted |
| they | had belted |
Future
| I | will belt |
| you | will belt |
| he;she;it | will belt |
| we | will belt |
| you | will belt |
| they | will belt |
Future Perfect
| I | will have belted |
| you | will have belted |
| he;she;it | will have belted |
| we | will have belted |
| you | will have belted |
| they | will have belted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | belt |
| you | belt |
| he;she;it | belt |
| we | belt |
| you | belt |
| they | belt |
Perfect
| I | have belted |
| you | have belted |
| he;she;it | have belted |
| we | have belted |
| you | have belted |
| they | have belted |
Imperfect
| I | belted |
| you | belted |
| he;she;it | belted |
| we | belted |
| you | belted |
| they | belted |
Pluperfect
| I | had belted |
| you | had belted |
| he;she;it | had belted |
| we | had belted |
| you | had belted |
| they | had belted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would belt |
| you | would belt |
| he;she;it | would belt |
| we | would belt |
| you | would belt |
| they | would belt |
Perfect
| I | would have belted |
| you | would have belted |
| he;she;it | would have belted |
| we | would have belted |
| you | would have belted |
| they | would have belted |
Imperative
| you | belt |
| we | Let's belt |
| you | belt |
Verbs conjugated like 'belt'
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 'belt'
beat,
belk,
bell,
best,
bet,
bolt,
elt,
felt,
gelt,
melt,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- gird
- encircle, strap, begird, cincture, girdle, surround, attach
- hit
- sock, smack, clobber, slug
Antonyms
- gird
- untie, release, loosen, strip
Additional Information
Etymology
1. O.E.
belt, from P.Gmc.
*baltjaz (cf. O.H.G.
balz, O.N.
balti), an early borrowing from L.
balteus "girdle," possibly from Etruscan. As a mark of rank or distinction, c.1340; references to boxing championship belts date from 1812. Transferred sense of "broad stripe encircling something" is from 1664; verb meaning "to thrash as with a belt" is from 1649; general sense of "to hit, thrash" is attested from 1838.
Below the belt "unfair" (1889) is from pugilism. To get something
under (one's) belt is to get it into one's stomach.
2. From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk belte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”), Faroese and Icelandic belti (“belt”). See: Scots '
belt', Danish '
bælte', Swedish '
bälte'.
Sample Sentences
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Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
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The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
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The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
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The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.
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The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
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Bobby belting the ball [1996, “Three Lions”, performed by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner:]
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He belted that pitch over the grandstand.
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He belted out the national anthem.
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Céline Dion belted her iconic song "My Heart Will Go On" in a show-stopping performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21. The legendary singer gave the throwback performance in honor of the 20th anniversary of the hit song from the Titanic soundtrack. [2017 May 22, Mallory Carra, “Celine Dion Is Making Everyone Cry”, in Bustle, BDG Media, retrieved 01 Jan 2022:]
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He belted down a shot of whisky.
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He was really belting along.
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I had to be pretty quick once I'd pulled the string and belt down the garden before the tiny tits escaped. [1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 138:]