Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gray
Participle: grayed
Gerund: graying
Indicative
Present
| I | gray |
| you | gray |
| he;she;it | grays |
| we | gray |
| you | gray |
| they | gray |
Perfect
| I | have grayed |
| you | have grayed |
| he;she;it | has grayed |
| we | have grayed |
| you | have grayed |
| they | have grayed |
Past
| I | grayed |
| you | grayed |
| he;she;it | grayed |
| we | grayed |
| you | grayed |
| they | grayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had grayed |
| you | had grayed |
| he;she;it | had grayed |
| we | had grayed |
| you | had grayed |
| they | had grayed |
Future
| I | will gray |
| you | will gray |
| he;she;it | will gray |
| we | will gray |
| you | will gray |
| they | will gray |
Future Perfect
| I | will have grayed |
| you | will have grayed |
| he;she;it | will have grayed |
| we | will have grayed |
| you | will have grayed |
| they | will have grayed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gray |
| you | gray |
| he;she;it | gray |
| we | gray |
| you | gray |
| they | gray |
Perfect
| I | have grayed |
| you | have grayed |
| he;she;it | have grayed |
| we | have grayed |
| you | have grayed |
| they | have grayed |
Imperfect
| I | grayed |
| you | grayed |
| he;she;it | grayed |
| we | grayed |
| you | grayed |
| they | grayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had grayed |
| you | had grayed |
| he;she;it | had grayed |
| we | had grayed |
| you | had grayed |
| they | had grayed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gray |
| you | would gray |
| he;she;it | would gray |
| we | would gray |
| you | would gray |
| they | would gray |
Perfect
| I | would have grayed |
| you | would have grayed |
| he;she;it | would have grayed |
| we | would have grayed |
| you | would have grayed |
| they | would have grayed |
Imperative
| you | gray |
| we | Let's gray |
| you | gray |
Verbs conjugated like 'gray'
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 'gray'
bray,
fray,
gay,
grab,
grey,
pray,
ray,
tray,
wray,
abray,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
2. Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”). See: Swedish '
grå', Russian '
зреть'.
Sample Sentences
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My hair is beginning to gray.
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the graying of America
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It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular. [2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic:]