Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to depave
Participle: depaved
Gerund: depaving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | depave |
| you | depave |
| he;she;it | depaves |
| we | depave |
| you | depave |
| they | depave |
Perfect
| I | have depaved |
| you | have depaved |
| he;she;it | has depaved |
| we | have depaved |
| you | have depaved |
| they | have depaved |
Past
| I | depaved |
| you | depaved |
| he;she;it | depaved |
| we | depaved |
| you | depaved |
| they | depaved |
Pluperfect
| I | had depaved |
| you | had depaved |
| he;she;it | had depaved |
| we | had depaved |
| you | had depaved |
| they | had depaved |
Future
| I | will depave |
| you | will depave |
| he;she;it | will depave |
| we | will depave |
| you | will depave |
| they | will depave |
Future Perfect
| I | will have depaved |
| you | will have depaved |
| he;she;it | will have depaved |
| we | will have depaved |
| you | will have depaved |
| they | will have depaved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | depave |
| you | depave |
| he;she;it | depave |
| we | depave |
| you | depave |
| they | depave |
Perfect
| I | have depaved |
| you | have depaved |
| he;she;it | have depaved |
| we | have depaved |
| you | have depaved |
| they | have depaved |
Imperfect
| I | depaved |
| you | depaved |
| he;she;it | depaved |
| we | depaved |
| you | depaved |
| they | depaved |
Pluperfect
| I | had depaved |
| you | had depaved |
| he;she;it | had depaved |
| we | had depaved |
| you | had depaved |
| they | had depaved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would depave |
| you | would depave |
| he;she;it | would depave |
| we | would depave |
| you | would depave |
| they | would depave |
Perfect
| I | would have depaved |
| you | would have depaved |
| he;she;it | would have depaved |
| we | would have depaved |
| you | would have depaved |
| they | would have depaved |
Imperative
| you | depave |
| we | Let's depave |
| you | depave |
Verbs conjugated like 'depave'
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 'depave'
deave,
deprave,
repave,
behave,
belave,
bewave,
dave,
deage,
debase,
debate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *de
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
4. Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
5. Proto-Italic *dē
6. Latin dē
7. Latin dē-der.
8. English de-
9. English pave
10. English depave
11. From de- + pave.
Sample Sentences
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Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers; closure of roads... [1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work, Island Press, page 223:]
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Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields. [1998 October, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, University of California Press, page 356:]
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Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars. [2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, "Depaving Paradise", Audubon Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20060815221845/http://magazine.audubon.org/profile/profile0003.html]
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They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator [2002, Jan Lundberg, "Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/press_release3.html]
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The city has a requirement to provide off-street parking.... UA Homes had real difficulty persuading City Hall to allow us to depave about six places for a garden. [2003, Richard Register, "Depaving the World", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/rregister.html]
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This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed. [2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, "Miscellaneous Stuff", Carfree Family, at carfreefamily.blogspot.com https://archive.is/20121203103059/carfreefamily.blogspot.com/2006/05/miscellaneous-stuff.html]
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Rewilding can be as complex as depaving a creek or as simple as planting a few seeds. All you need is a bit of time, curiosity, keen eyes and creativity. [2018, Michelle Mulder, Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 26:]