Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fust
Participle: fusted
Gerund: fusting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fust |
| you | fust |
| he;she;it | fusts |
| we | fust |
| you | fust |
| they | fust |
Perfect
| I | have fusted |
| you | have fusted |
| he;she;it | has fusted |
| we | have fusted |
| you | have fusted |
| they | have fusted |
Past
| I | fusted |
| you | fusted |
| he;she;it | fusted |
| we | fusted |
| you | fusted |
| they | fusted |
Pluperfect
| I | had fusted |
| you | had fusted |
| he;she;it | had fusted |
| we | had fusted |
| you | had fusted |
| they | had fusted |
Future
| I | will fust |
| you | will fust |
| he;she;it | will fust |
| we | will fust |
| you | will fust |
| they | will fust |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fusted |
| you | will have fusted |
| he;she;it | will have fusted |
| we | will have fusted |
| you | will have fusted |
| they | will have fusted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fust |
| you | fust |
| he;she;it | fust |
| we | fust |
| you | fust |
| they | fust |
Perfect
| I | have fusted |
| you | have fusted |
| he;she;it | have fusted |
| we | have fusted |
| you | have fusted |
| they | have fusted |
Imperfect
| I | fusted |
| you | fusted |
| he;she;it | fusted |
| we | fusted |
| you | fusted |
| they | fusted |
Pluperfect
| I | had fusted |
| you | had fusted |
| he;she;it | had fusted |
| we | had fusted |
| you | had fusted |
| they | had fusted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fust |
| you | would fust |
| he;she;it | would fust |
| we | would fust |
| you | would fust |
| they | would fust |
Perfect
| I | would have fusted |
| you | would have fusted |
| he;she;it | would have fusted |
| we | would have fusted |
| you | would have fusted |
| they | would have fusted |
Imperative
| you | fust |
| we | Let's fust |
| you | fust |
Verbs conjugated like 'fust'
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 'fust'
bust,
dust,
fast,
fist,
fuse,
fuss,
gust,
just,
lust,
must,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English fust, from Old French fust (“wood; bole, tree trunk”) (modern French fût), from Latin fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”) or *gʷʰen- (“to strike; to kill, slay”).
Sample Sentences
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Sure he that made vs with ſuch large diſcourse / Looking before and after, gaue vs not / That capabilitie and god-like reaſon / To fvſt in vs vnvſed, […] [c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. Newly Imprinted and Enlarged to Almost as Much Againe as it Was, According to the True and Perfect Coppie (the Second Quarto), London: Printed by I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] and are to be sold at his shoppe under Saint Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet, published 1604, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:]
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I mowlde, or fust, as corne dothe. Je moisis, sec. conj. (The Enlightenment of the French Language by Jean Palsgrave, followed by the grammar of Giles du Guez. Published for the first time in France by F[rançois] Génin.) [1852, Jean Palsgrave, Giles du Guez, L’Éclaircissement de la langue Française par Jean Palsgrave, suivi de la grammaire de Giles du Guez. Publiés pour la premiére fois en France par F[rançois] Génin [The Enlightenment of the French Language by Jean Palsgrave, followed by the grammar of Giles du Guez. Published for the first time in France by F[rançois] Génin.] (Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France, Deuxième série (Histoire des lettres et des sciences) [Collection of Unpublished Documents on the History of France, Second Series (History of Humanities and Sciences)]; 75), Paris: Imprimerie nationale, →OCLC, page 641, column 2:]
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I marvel that the clergy don't propose / A day of fasting and humiliation, / As they did when potatoe crops were fusted;— / We're now much worse, when porridge-pots are rusted. [1875, David Picken, “A Lay Sermon. Written during One of the Formerly Periodic Stagnations of the Weaving Trade.”, in Poems and Songs. … With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, Paisley, Renfrewshire: J. & J. Cook, 3 Moss Street, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 33:]
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Separately and then together, we forged these theaters, these instrumentalities, these constellations of activities, these collective outposts, these—God forgive me!—institutions in order to preserve and re-create, in new forms, the art of theater then fusting in us unused. [1970, Zelda Fichandler, “Theatres or Institutions?”, in International Theatre Institute of the United States, editor, Theatre 3: The American Theatre 1969–1970, volume 3, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC; reprinted in “Theaters or Institutions?”, in Todd London, editor, An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art, New York, N.Y.: Theatre Communications Group, 2013, →ISBN, page 303:]
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Later, her [Charlotte Brontë's] simmering resenment at being treated as a drudge in one situation after another while her genius fusted in her unused caused the occasional surprising outburst in her habitual collected behaviour, enabling her to stand her ground against employers. [1989, Elizabeth Imlay, “Charlotte the Initiate”, in Charlotte Brontë and the Mysteries of Love: Myth and Allegory in Jane Eyre, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN; new edition, Speldhurst, Kent: Imlay Publications, 1993, →ISBN, page 165:]
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VI. To prevent wine from fuſting, otherwiſe taſting of the caſk, and to give it both a taſte and flavour quite agreeable. Stick a lemon with cloves as thick as it can hold; hang it by the bung hole in a bag over the wine in the caſk for three or four days, and ſtop it very carefully for fear of its turning dead, if it ſhould get air. [[1797?], “Secrets Relative to Wine”, in Valuable Secrets in Arts and Trades: Or, Approved Directions from the Best Artists. … Containing Upwards of One Thousand Approved Receipts Relative to Arts and Trades, London: Printed for J. Barker, Russell-Court, Drury-Lane; J. Cattermoul, no. 376, Oxford-Street, and J. Parsons, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 226:]