Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dew
Participle: dewed
Gerund: dewing
Indicative
Present
| I | dew |
| you | dew |
| he;she;it | dews |
| we | dew |
| you | dew |
| they | dew |
Perfect
| I | have dewed |
| you | have dewed |
| he;she;it | has dewed |
| we | have dewed |
| you | have dewed |
| they | have dewed |
Past
| I | dewed |
| you | dewed |
| he;she;it | dewed |
| we | dewed |
| you | dewed |
| they | dewed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dewed |
| you | had dewed |
| he;she;it | had dewed |
| we | had dewed |
| you | had dewed |
| they | had dewed |
Future
| I | will dew |
| you | will dew |
| he;she;it | will dew |
| we | will dew |
| you | will dew |
| they | will dew |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dewed |
| you | will have dewed |
| he;she;it | will have dewed |
| we | will have dewed |
| you | will have dewed |
| they | will have dewed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dew |
| you | dew |
| he;she;it | dew |
| we | dew |
| you | dew |
| they | dew |
Perfect
| I | have dewed |
| you | have dewed |
| he;she;it | have dewed |
| we | have dewed |
| you | have dewed |
| they | have dewed |
Imperfect
| I | dewed |
| you | dewed |
| he;she;it | dewed |
| we | dewed |
| you | dewed |
| they | dewed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dewed |
| you | had dewed |
| he;she;it | had dewed |
| we | had dewed |
| you | had dewed |
| they | had dewed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dew |
| you | would dew |
| he;she;it | would dew |
| we | would dew |
| you | would dew |
| they | would dew |
Perfect
| I | would have dewed |
| you | would have dewed |
| he;she;it | would have dewed |
| we | would have dewed |
| you | would have dewed |
| they | would have dewed |
Imperative
| you | dew |
| we | Let's dew |
| you | dew |
Verbs conjugated like 'dew'
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 'dew'
daw,
deg,
den,
dow,
hew,
jew,
Jew,
lew,
mew,
new,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English dewe, dewen, from Old English *dēawian, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwēn, from Proto-Germanic *dawwāną. Cognates include Saterland Frisian daue, German tauen and Dutch dauwen. See: Proto-Germanic '
*dawwāną', Frisian, Saterlandic 'daue', German, old spelling '
tauen', Dutch '
dauwen'.
Sample Sentences
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The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so. [1887, Andrew B. Saxton, “Sunken Graves”, in The Century:]
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The former [substances extremely attentuated, or in a filamentous and downly state] collect dew copiously, while the latter [solids] so rarely indicate its presence, even when it is dewing freely on contiguous substances, that some observers have doubted whether it ever happened, and have been disposed to believe that they repel it. [1831, The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for ..., page 80:]
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Yesterday she tied Kenneth to a tree and left him there for hours when it was dewing. [1929, Cecily Sidgwick, Six of Them, page 118:]
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Withdraw heat from a gas, and it will dew into a liquid. Subtract more heat, and a solid forms. [2017, Sam Kean, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us:]