Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cradle
Participle: cradled
Gerund: cradling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cradle |
| you | cradle |
| he;she;it | cradles |
| we | cradle |
| you | cradle |
| they | cradle |
Perfect
| I | have cradled |
| you | have cradled |
| he;she;it | has cradled |
| we | have cradled |
| you | have cradled |
| they | have cradled |
Past
| I | cradled |
| you | cradled |
| he;she;it | cradled |
| we | cradled |
| you | cradled |
| they | cradled |
Pluperfect
| I | had cradled |
| you | had cradled |
| he;she;it | had cradled |
| we | had cradled |
| you | had cradled |
| they | had cradled |
Future
| I | will cradle |
| you | will cradle |
| he;she;it | will cradle |
| we | will cradle |
| you | will cradle |
| they | will cradle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cradled |
| you | will have cradled |
| he;she;it | will have cradled |
| we | will have cradled |
| you | will have cradled |
| they | will have cradled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cradle |
| you | cradle |
| he;she;it | cradle |
| we | cradle |
| you | cradle |
| they | cradle |
Perfect
| I | have cradled |
| you | have cradled |
| he;she;it | have cradled |
| we | have cradled |
| you | have cradled |
| they | have cradled |
Imperfect
| I | cradled |
| you | cradled |
| he;she;it | cradled |
| we | cradled |
| you | cradled |
| they | cradled |
Pluperfect
| I | had cradled |
| you | had cradled |
| he;she;it | had cradled |
| we | had cradled |
| you | had cradled |
| they | had cradled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cradle |
| you | would cradle |
| he;she;it | would cradle |
| we | would cradle |
| you | would cradle |
| they | would cradle |
Perfect
| I | would have cradled |
| you | would have cradled |
| he;she;it | would have cradled |
| we | would have cradled |
| you | would have cradled |
| they | would have cradled |
Imperative
| you | cradle |
| we | Let's cradle |
| you | cradle |
Verbs conjugated like 'cradle'
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 'cradle'
crudle,
brandle,
bridle,
cable,
cade,
cadge,
candle,
caudle,
clade,
coddle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English cradel, credel, from Old English cradol, from Proto-West Germanic *kradul, from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz, from Proto-Germanic *kradô (“(wicker) basket”). Related to cart.
Sample Sentences
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cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
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The little girl was left alone in her tiny bedroom, cradling her dead hamster. [2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:]
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He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. [1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:]
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But are the Jewish people a nation? For two thousand years, they have been rent from the physical homeland that cradled their youth; they have been scattered over the entire earth; they have been influenced by almost every climate, culture, and nation, constituting a small minority in each country. [1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 357:]
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Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Cradle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC: “In Lombardy […] boats are cradled and transported over the grade.”