Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cowl
Participle: cowled
Gerund: cowling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cowl |
| you | cowl |
| he;she;it | cowls |
| we | cowl |
| you | cowl |
| they | cowl |
Perfect
| I | have cowled |
| you | have cowled |
| he;she;it | has cowled |
| we | have cowled |
| you | have cowled |
| they | have cowled |
Past
| I | cowled |
| you | cowled |
| he;she;it | cowled |
| we | cowled |
| you | cowled |
| they | cowled |
Pluperfect
| I | had cowled |
| you | had cowled |
| he;she;it | had cowled |
| we | had cowled |
| you | had cowled |
| they | had cowled |
Future
| I | will cowl |
| you | will cowl |
| he;she;it | will cowl |
| we | will cowl |
| you | will cowl |
| they | will cowl |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cowled |
| you | will have cowled |
| he;she;it | will have cowled |
| we | will have cowled |
| you | will have cowled |
| they | will have cowled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cowl |
| you | cowl |
| he;she;it | cowl |
| we | cowl |
| you | cowl |
| they | cowl |
Perfect
| I | have cowled |
| you | have cowled |
| he;she;it | have cowled |
| we | have cowled |
| you | have cowled |
| they | have cowled |
Imperfect
| I | cowled |
| you | cowled |
| he;she;it | cowled |
| we | cowled |
| you | cowled |
| they | cowled |
Pluperfect
| I | had cowled |
| you | had cowled |
| he;she;it | had cowled |
| we | had cowled |
| you | had cowled |
| they | had cowled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cowl |
| you | would cowl |
| he;she;it | would cowl |
| we | would cowl |
| you | would cowl |
| they | would cowl |
Perfect
| I | would have cowled |
| you | would have cowled |
| he;she;it | would have cowled |
| we | would have cowled |
| you | would have cowled |
| they | would have cowled |
Imperative
| you | cowl |
| we | Let's cowl |
| you | cowl |
Verbs conjugated like 'cowl'
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 'cowl'
bowl,
coal,
coil,
coll,
cool,
cow,
cowp,
fowl,
gowl,
howl,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English coule, from Old English cūle, from earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”), from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cagoule.
Sample Sentences
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Why cowl thy face beneath the Mourner’s hood, [1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Human Life, On the Denial of Immortality”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, page 269:]
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But he by wild and way […]
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Rode till the star above the wakening sun,
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Beside that tower where Percivale was cowl’d [i.e. became a monk],
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Glanced from the rosy forehead of the dawn. [1870, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettare”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan, pages 120–121:]
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The sky was cowled with cloud, all except a narrow chink where it met the horizon. [1945, Robert W. Service, chapter 8, in Ploughman of the Moon, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 249:]
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When he came downstairs from the bar with the whiskies, she had found a sweater for herself and had cowled a thick raincoat over Sligo. [1964, Hortense Calisher, “Extreme Magic”, in Extreme Magic: A Novella and Other Stories, Boston: Little, Brown, page 208:]
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As the evenings got colder, he used to reach up and pull down the green baize cloth, and cowl it around himself and wear it like a kind of igloo. [1972, Edna O’Brien, Night, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, published 1987, page 70:]
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COWL, scrape together. "Cowlin t'cinders up." [1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 17:]