boom – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of boom

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to boom
Participle: boomed
Gerund: booming

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Iboom
youboom
he;she;itbooms
weboom
youboom
theyboom

Perfect

Ihave boomed
youhave boomed
he;she;ithas boomed
wehave boomed
youhave boomed
theyhave boomed

Past

Iboomed
youboomed
he;she;itboomed
weboomed
youboomed
theyboomed

Pluperfect

Ihad boomed
youhad boomed
he;she;ithad boomed
wehad boomed
youhad boomed
theyhad boomed

Future

Iwill boom
youwill boom
he;she;itwill boom
wewill boom
youwill boom
theywill boom

Future Perfect

Iwill have boomed
youwill have boomed
he;she;itwill have boomed
wewill have boomed
youwill have boomed
theywill have boomed

Subjunctive

Present

Iboom
youboom
he;she;itboom
weboom
youboom
theyboom

Perfect

Ihave boomed
youhave boomed
he;she;ithave boomed
wehave boomed
youhave boomed
theyhave boomed

Imperfect

Iboomed
youboomed
he;she;itboomed
weboomed
youboomed
theyboomed

Pluperfect

Ihad boomed
youhad boomed
he;she;ithad boomed
wehad boomed
youhad boomed
theyhad boomed

Conditional

Present

Iwould boom
youwould boom
he;she;itwould boom
wewould boom
youwould boom
theywould boom

Perfect

Iwould have boomed
youwould have boomed
he;she;itwould have boomed
wewould have boomed
youwould have boomed
theywould have boomed

Imperative

youboom
weLet's boom
youboom

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam booming
youare booming
he;she;itis booming
weare booming
youare booming
theyare booming

Perfect

Ihave been booming
youhave been booming
he;she;ithas been booming
wehave been booming
youhave been booming
theyhave been booming

Past

Iwas booming
youwere booming
he;she;itwas booming
wewere booming
youwere booming
theywere booming

Pluperfect

Ihad been booming
youhad been booming
he;she;ithad been booming
wehad been booming
youhad been booming
theyhad been booming

Future

Iwill be booming
youwill be booming
he;she;itwill be booming
wewill be booming
youwill be booming
theywill be booming

Future Perfect

Iwill have been booming
youwill have been booming
he;she;itwill have been booming
wewill have been booming
youwill have been booming
theywill have been booming

Conditional

Present

Iwould be booming
youwould be booming
he;she;itwould be booming
wewould be booming
youwould be booming
theywould be booming

Perfect

Iwould have been booming
youwould have been booming
he;she;itwould have been booming
wewould have been booming
youwould have been booming
theywould have been booming

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'boom'

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 'boom'

bloom, boo, boob, boof, boog, book, bool, boop, boot, borm,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

prosper
thrive, expand, grow, flourish, multiply, swell

Antonyms

to make a soft rustling or murmuring sound
blare, clang, peal, roar, sough, thunder

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested. See: German, old spelling 'bummen', Dutch 'bommen'.

Verbs referencing "boom"

English bogart, Dutch boomen, German, old spelling boomen, Norwegian bomme.

Sample Sentences

  • Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.
  • The cannon boomed, recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud.
  • Beneath the cliff, the sea was booming on the rocks.
  • I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.
  • Did you ever hear a bittern booming? [1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:]
  • I was about to reach for the marmalade, when I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend to it. “Bertram Wooster's residence,” I said, having connected with the instrument. “Wooster in person at this end. Oh hullo,” I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of Mrs Thomas Portarlington Travers of Brinkley Court, Market Snodsbury, near Droitwich – or, putting it another way, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia.
  • [...]
  • “I'd give a tenner to have Aubrey Upjohn here at this moment.” “You can get him for nothing. He's in Uncle Tom's study.” Her face lit up. “He is?” [Aunt Dahlia] threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor.” [1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “I AND XVII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:]
  • The population boomed in recent years.
  • Business was booming.
  • “If you look at South Florida right now, this place is booming,” Mr. DeSantis said recently. “Los Angeles isn’t booming. New York City isn’t booming.” [2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, quoting Ron DeSantis, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • Over this period, as plants boomed, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dropped by 90 per cent, triggering a period of global cooling. [2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 145:]
  • Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.
  • Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly[.] [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you. [1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge:]
  • This unexpected stand on the budget met with some displeasure from his Democratic colleagues and the Administration , particularly in light of the fact that Truman had not forgotten that Douglas boomed Eisenhower as the Democrat nominee for President in 1948. [1964, Jerry Maynard Anderson, Paul H. Douglas: Insurgent Senate Spokesman for Humane Causes, 1949-1963:]
  • Field's ostensible reason for going to Texas was to attend the second annual Texas Roundup in Austin. He boomed Roosevelt there. “Governor Roosevelt has all the strength possessed by Al Smith and none of Smith's weaknesses,” he told reporters. [2019 October 22, Norman D. Brown, Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys: Texas Politics, 1929–1932, University of Texas Press, →ISBN:]
  • The train boomed through the station without stopping.
  • The ship was booming under the press of sail.
  • She comes booming down before it. [1841, Benjamin Totten, Naval Text-book and Dictionary […] :]
  • It can get fast enough that it's hard to see what flashed on your screen though, so it would be nice if chess engines had a feature of persistently showing you what move they planned to play before they boomed, even if it took less than a second for them to figure it out. [2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:]
  • In its White game Stockfish had various moments of booming during these long thinks, but these long thinks always ended disappointingly in a slightly lower evaluation than it started with. [2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2022:]
  • to boom railroad or mining shares