Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to frost
Participle: frosted
Gerund: frosting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | frost |
| you | frost |
| he;she;it | frosts |
| we | frost |
| you | frost |
| they | frost |
Perfect
| I | have frosted |
| you | have frosted |
| he;she;it | has frosted |
| we | have frosted |
| you | have frosted |
| they | have frosted |
Past
| I | frosted |
| you | frosted |
| he;she;it | frosted |
| we | frosted |
| you | frosted |
| they | frosted |
Pluperfect
| I | had frosted |
| you | had frosted |
| he;she;it | had frosted |
| we | had frosted |
| you | had frosted |
| they | had frosted |
Future
| I | will frost |
| you | will frost |
| he;she;it | will frost |
| we | will frost |
| you | will frost |
| they | will frost |
Future Perfect
| I | will have frosted |
| you | will have frosted |
| he;she;it | will have frosted |
| we | will have frosted |
| you | will have frosted |
| they | will have frosted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | frost |
| you | frost |
| he;she;it | frost |
| we | frost |
| you | frost |
| they | frost |
Perfect
| I | have frosted |
| you | have frosted |
| he;she;it | have frosted |
| we | have frosted |
| you | have frosted |
| they | have frosted |
Imperfect
| I | frosted |
| you | frosted |
| he;she;it | frosted |
| we | frosted |
| you | frosted |
| they | frosted |
Pluperfect
| I | had frosted |
| you | had frosted |
| he;she;it | had frosted |
| we | had frosted |
| you | had frosted |
| they | had frosted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would frost |
| you | would frost |
| he;she;it | would frost |
| we | would frost |
| you | would frost |
| they | would frost |
Perfect
| I | would have frosted |
| you | would have frosted |
| he;she;it | would have frosted |
| we | would have frosted |
| you | would have frosted |
| they | would have frosted |
Imperative
| you | frost |
| we | Let's frost |
| you | frost |
Verbs conjugated like 'frost'
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 'frost'
frist,
front,
frosh,
frot,
froust,
frowst,
befrost,
boost,
bost,
brast,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. forst, frost "a freezing, becoming frozen, extreme cold," from P.Gmc. *frusta- (cf. O.H.G. frost, Du. vorst), related to freosan "to freeze." Frost-bitten first recorded 1593. Frosting in the sense of "cake icing" is from 1858.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *prews-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
5. Proto-Indo-European *prustós
6. Proto-Germanic *frustaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *frost
8. Old English frost
9. Middle English frost
10. English frost
11. From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
12. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.
Sample Sentences
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“The weather is pleasant while it frosted a little at night.” [1975, Brian W. Blouet, Merlin P. Lawson, editors, Images of the Plains: The Role of Human Nature in Settlement, University of Nebraska Press, page 142:]
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I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.