Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to harness
Participle: harnessed
Gerund: harnessing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | harness |
| you | harness |
| he;she;it | harnesses |
| we | harness |
| you | harness |
| they | harness |
Perfect
| I | have harnessed |
| you | have harnessed |
| he;she;it | has harnessed |
| we | have harnessed |
| you | have harnessed |
| they | have harnessed |
Past
| I | harnessed |
| you | harnessed |
| he;she;it | harnessed |
| we | harnessed |
| you | harnessed |
| they | harnessed |
Pluperfect
| I | had harnessed |
| you | had harnessed |
| he;she;it | had harnessed |
| we | had harnessed |
| you | had harnessed |
| they | had harnessed |
Future
| I | will harness |
| you | will harness |
| he;she;it | will harness |
| we | will harness |
| you | will harness |
| they | will harness |
Future Perfect
| I | will have harnessed |
| you | will have harnessed |
| he;she;it | will have harnessed |
| we | will have harnessed |
| you | will have harnessed |
| they | will have harnessed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | harness |
| you | harness |
| he;she;it | harness |
| we | harness |
| you | harness |
| they | harness |
Perfect
| I | have harnessed |
| you | have harnessed |
| he;she;it | have harnessed |
| we | have harnessed |
| you | have harnessed |
| they | have harnessed |
Imperfect
| I | harnessed |
| you | harnessed |
| he;she;it | harnessed |
| we | harnessed |
| you | harnessed |
| they | harnessed |
Pluperfect
| I | had harnessed |
| you | had harnessed |
| he;she;it | had harnessed |
| we | had harnessed |
| you | had harnessed |
| they | had harnessed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would harness |
| you | would harness |
| he;she;it | would harness |
| we | would harness |
| you | would harness |
| they | would harness |
Perfect
| I | would have harnessed |
| you | would have harnessed |
| he;she;it | would have harnessed |
| we | would have harnessed |
| you | would have harnessed |
| they | would have harnessed |
Imperative
| you | harness |
| we | Let's harness |
| you | harness |
Verbs conjugated like 'harness'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'harness'
harnass,
caress,
earnest,
harass,
harrass,
harvest,
unharness,
access,
arrest,
assess,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.Fr.
harneis, perhaps from O.N.
*hernest "provisions for an army," from
herr "army" +
nest "provisions." Ger.
Harnisch "harness, armor" is the O.Fr. word, borrowed into M.H.G. The verb meaning "to put a harness on a draught animal" is from c.1300; figurative sense is from 1698.
2. From Middle English harneys, harnes, harneis, harnais, herneis, from Anglo-Norman harneis and Old French hernois (“equipment used in battle”), believed to be from Old Norse *hernest, from herr (“army”) + nest (“provisions”) (from Proto-Germanic *nesaną (“to heal, recover”)). More at harry. See: Proto-Germanic '
*nesaną'.
Sample Sentences
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They harnessed the horse to the post.
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Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal. [2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:]
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Imagine what might happen if it were possible to harness solar energy fully.
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Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys. [2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:]