Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to contraband
Participle: contrabanded
Gerund: contrabanding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | contraband |
| you | contraband |
| he;she;it | contrabands |
| we | contraband |
| you | contraband |
| they | contraband |
Perfect
| I | have contrabanded |
| you | have contrabanded |
| he;she;it | has contrabanded |
| we | have contrabanded |
| you | have contrabanded |
| they | have contrabanded |
Past
| I | contrabanded |
| you | contrabanded |
| he;she;it | contrabanded |
| we | contrabanded |
| you | contrabanded |
| they | contrabanded |
Pluperfect
| I | had contrabanded |
| you | had contrabanded |
| he;she;it | had contrabanded |
| we | had contrabanded |
| you | had contrabanded |
| they | had contrabanded |
Future
| I | will contraband |
| you | will contraband |
| he;she;it | will contraband |
| we | will contraband |
| you | will contraband |
| they | will contraband |
Future Perfect
| I | will have contrabanded |
| you | will have contrabanded |
| he;she;it | will have contrabanded |
| we | will have contrabanded |
| you | will have contrabanded |
| they | will have contrabanded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | contraband |
| you | contraband |
| he;she;it | contraband |
| we | contraband |
| you | contraband |
| they | contraband |
Perfect
| I | have contrabanded |
| you | have contrabanded |
| he;she;it | have contrabanded |
| we | have contrabanded |
| you | have contrabanded |
| they | have contrabanded |
Imperfect
| I | contrabanded |
| you | contrabanded |
| he;she;it | contrabanded |
| we | contrabanded |
| you | contrabanded |
| they | contrabanded |
Pluperfect
| I | had contrabanded |
| you | had contrabanded |
| he;she;it | had contrabanded |
| we | had contrabanded |
| you | had contrabanded |
| they | had contrabanded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would contraband |
| you | would contraband |
| he;she;it | would contraband |
| we | would contraband |
| you | would contraband |
| they | would contraband |
Perfect
| I | would have contrabanded |
| you | would have contrabanded |
| he;she;it | would have contrabanded |
| we | would have contrabanded |
| you | would have contrabanded |
| they | would have contrabanded |
Imperative
| you | contraband |
| we | Let's contraband |
| you | contraband |
Verbs conjugated like 'contraband'
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 'contraband'
contravene,
charabanc,
cobrand,
constrain,
contain,
contend,
contracept,
contract,
contradick,
contradict,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Spanish contrabanda (modern spelling contrabando), from Italian contrabando (modern spelling contrabbando), from contra (“against”) + bando (“ban”), and reinforced by French contrebande.
Sample Sentences
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there are also searched for concealed Slaves, and goods contrabanded [1615, George Sandys, “The Second Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 87:]
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The law severely contrabands / Our taking business off men's hands. [1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:]