Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blockhead
Participle: blockheaded
Gerund: blockheading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blockhead |
| you | blockhead |
| he;she;it | blockheads |
| we | blockhead |
| you | blockhead |
| they | blockhead |
Perfect
| I | have blockheaded |
| you | have blockheaded |
| he;she;it | has blockheaded |
| we | have blockheaded |
| you | have blockheaded |
| they | have blockheaded |
Past
| I | blockheaded |
| you | blockheaded |
| he;she;it | blockheaded |
| we | blockheaded |
| you | blockheaded |
| they | blockheaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had blockheaded |
| you | had blockheaded |
| he;she;it | had blockheaded |
| we | had blockheaded |
| you | had blockheaded |
| they | had blockheaded |
Future
| I | will blockhead |
| you | will blockhead |
| he;she;it | will blockhead |
| we | will blockhead |
| you | will blockhead |
| they | will blockhead |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blockheaded |
| you | will have blockheaded |
| he;she;it | will have blockheaded |
| we | will have blockheaded |
| you | will have blockheaded |
| they | will have blockheaded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blockhead |
| you | blockhead |
| he;she;it | blockhead |
| we | blockhead |
| you | blockhead |
| they | blockhead |
Perfect
| I | have blockheaded |
| you | have blockheaded |
| he;she;it | have blockheaded |
| we | have blockheaded |
| you | have blockheaded |
| they | have blockheaded |
Imperfect
| I | blockheaded |
| you | blockheaded |
| he;she;it | blockheaded |
| we | blockheaded |
| you | blockheaded |
| they | blockheaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had blockheaded |
| you | had blockheaded |
| he;she;it | had blockheaded |
| we | had blockheaded |
| you | had blockheaded |
| they | had blockheaded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blockhead |
| you | would blockhead |
| he;she;it | would blockhead |
| we | would blockhead |
| you | would blockhead |
| they | would blockhead |
Perfect
| I | would have blockheaded |
| you | would have blockheaded |
| he;she;it | would have blockheaded |
| we | would have blockheaded |
| you | would have blockheaded |
| they | would have blockheaded |
Imperative
| you | blockhead |
| we | Let's blockhead |
| you | blockhead |
Verbs conjugated like 'blockhead'
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 'blockhead'
blacklead,
backread,
blockade,
backbend,
backhand,
backheel,
backload,
becheat,
behead,
black-bag,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1532, block (noun) + -head.
Sample Sentences
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Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating. [2007, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America, →ISBN:]
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Two years' blockading made fair Malta ours: A noble struggle! -- yet 't is thought (at Rading) That Britain's island shews superior pow'rs, To bear, and to survive, two years blockheading ! [1804, The Spirit of the Public Journals:]
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I have blockheading and boxing enough at Master Lovell's, I won't have it repeated here; and in a great passion, I threw the Virgil at his head, hit him in the face, and bruised his lip, and ran away. [1856, John Adams, The works of John Adams, second President of the United States, →ISBN:]
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The operation of blockheading is much the same as that of beheading, which Charles I underwent. In both the head is severed from the body. The body goes around without benefit of head. The victim becomes a Headless Horseman, or that more common figure a Headless Pedestrian. In our day the operation is often done not on an executioner's block but on Paradise Avenue in Suburbia Manor. [1958, The Ethical Outlook: A Journal of the American Ethical Union:]