bone – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to bone
Participle: boned
Gerund: boning

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of bone

Indicative

Present

I	bone
you	bone
he;she;it	bones
we	bone
you	bone
they	bone

Perfect

I	have boned
you	have boned
he;she;it	has boned
we	have boned
you	have boned
they	have boned

Past

I	boned
you	boned
he;she;it	boned
we	boned
you	boned
they	boned

Pluperfect

I	had boned
you	had boned
he;she;it	had boned
we	had boned
you	had boned
they	had boned

Future

I	will bone
you	will bone
he;she;it	will bone
we	will bone
you	will bone
they	will bone

Future Perfect

I	will have boned
you	will have boned
he;she;it	will have boned
we	will have boned
you	will have boned
they	will have boned

Subjunctive

Present

I	bone
you	bone
he;she;it	bone
we	bone
you	bone
they	bone

Perfect

I	have boned
you	have boned
he;she;it	have boned
we	have boned
you	have boned
they	have boned

Imperfect

I	boned
you	boned
he;she;it	boned
we	boned
you	boned
they	boned

Pluperfect

I	had boned
you	had boned
he;she;it	had boned
we	had boned
you	had boned
they	had boned

Conditional

Present

I	would bone
you	would bone
he;she;it	would bone
we	would bone
you	would bone
they	would bone

Perfect

I	would have boned
you	would have boned
he;she;it	would have boned
we	would have boned
you	would have boned
they	would have boned

Imperative

you	bone
we	Let's bone
you	bone

Indicative

Present

I	am boning
you	are boning
he;she;it	is boning
we	are boning
you	are boning
they	are boning

Perfect

I	have been boning
you	have been boning
he;she;it	has been boning
we	have been boning
you	have been boning
they	have been boning

Past

I	was boning
you	were boning
he;she;it	was boning
we	were boning
you	were boning
they	were boning

Pluperfect

I	had been boning
you	had been boning
he;she;it	had been boning
we	had been boning
you	had been boning
they	had been boning

Future

I	will be boning
you	will be boning
he;she;it	will be boning
we	will be boning
you	will be boning
they	will be boning

Future Perfect

I	will have been boning
you	will have been boning
he;she;it	will have been boning
we	will have been boning
you	will have been boning
they	will have been boning

Conditional

Present

I	would be boning
you	would be boning
he;she;it	would be boning
we	would be boning
you	would be boning
they	would be boning

Perfect

I	would have been boning
you	would have been boning
he;she;it	would have been boning
we	would have been boning
you	would have been boning
they	would have been boning

Verbs conjugated like 'bone'

abacinate, abalienate, abase, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, abduce, aberrate, aberuncate, abirritate, abjudge, abjudicate, abjugate, abjure, ablactate, ablaqueate, able, ablegate, abligate, abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'bone'

bane, bode, boke, bond, bong, bonk, bore, bose, bowe, bowne,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

vulgar, have sexual intercourse with: copulate, copulate with
to engage in sexual intercourse: bang, bauf, beat, boff, boink, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, dance, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frig, fuck, get busy, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, make it, make love, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, play, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, stick, tumble, wango tango
to take something that does not belong to one: abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
2. Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bian, Biin, biinj (“bone; leg”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Icelandic bein (“bone; leg”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein. See: Dutch 'been', Breton 'benañ'.

Sample Sentences

One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields. [1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write, page 44:]
The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, boned and rolled, but not stuffed. [1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique, page 73:]
Then it is boned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium. [2009, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food, page 379:]
Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout. [2011, Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice, page 38:]
He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.” [1859 July 9, The Economist, page 758:]
Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps. [1871, Figure-Training:]
boning rod
O Memmius, well and slowly did you bone me, supine, day by day, with the whole of that beam. [1894, Catullus, translated by Leonard C. Smithers, The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus, section 58:]
We’re bonin’ on the dark blocks / Wearin’ out the shocks, wettin’ up the dashboard clock [1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:]
Stash in the buildin wit this chick named Alona / From Daytona, when I was young I wants to bone her [1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy:]
We were sitting in the student union between classes, and I had just been trying to decide which one of them I was gonna bone first that night. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 153:]
[…]These cats stay rapping about cars they don't own / I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don't bone [2006, “Sick of it all”, in Masta Ace (lyrics), Pariah:]
When we return we'll find out which one of our six remaining contestants' dreams will be totally ruined, like your mom's reputation after I bone her face. [2007, Stacey Deddo, The Elimination Special, Part II: The Elimination (Drawn Together), season 3, episode 14, spoken by The Jew Producer (James Arnold Taylor), via Comedy Central:]
I swear on the good book that if you pull through, I will bone Travis Junior. [2007, Reno Mounties (Reno 911!), season 4, episode 11, spoken by Deputy Cherisha Kimball (Mary Birdsong), via Comedy Central:]
I'd been boning French chicks for a while now and was always shocked to see how many able-bodied young white women had no qualms about being on welfare. [2012, Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 89:]
“You don’t know!”, Bony echoed. “You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can’t tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater”. [1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48:]
bone up
“I know it. You do not study.” “What’s the use of boning all the time! I wasn’t cut out for it.” [1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums:]
[…] the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits […] [c. 1980, F. van Zy, SADF National Service (1979-1980), archived from the original on 22 Jun 2004:]
Dix Handley: Don’t bone me!
Cobby: Now look, I’m not boning you, Dix—
Dix: Did I ever welsh?
Cobby: Nobody said you did—
Dix: You just boned me! [1950, Asphalt Jungle:]

bone – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of bone

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'bone'

Verbs similar to 'bone'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Sample Sentences