Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lather
Participle: lathered
Gerund: lathering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lather |
| you | lather |
| he;she;it | lathers |
| we | lather |
| you | lather |
| they | lather |
Perfect
| I | have lathered |
| you | have lathered |
| he;she;it | has lathered |
| we | have lathered |
| you | have lathered |
| they | have lathered |
Past
| I | lathered |
| you | lathered |
| he;she;it | lathered |
| we | lathered |
| you | lathered |
| they | lathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had lathered |
| you | had lathered |
| he;she;it | had lathered |
| we | had lathered |
| you | had lathered |
| they | had lathered |
Future
| I | will lather |
| you | will lather |
| he;she;it | will lather |
| we | will lather |
| you | will lather |
| they | will lather |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lathered |
| you | will have lathered |
| he;she;it | will have lathered |
| we | will have lathered |
| you | will have lathered |
| they | will have lathered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lather |
| you | lather |
| he;she;it | lather |
| we | lather |
| you | lather |
| they | lather |
Perfect
| I | have lathered |
| you | have lathered |
| he;she;it | have lathered |
| we | have lathered |
| you | have lathered |
| they | have lathered |
Imperfect
| I | lathered |
| you | lathered |
| he;she;it | lathered |
| we | lathered |
| you | lathered |
| they | lathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had lathered |
| you | had lathered |
| he;she;it | had lathered |
| we | had lathered |
| you | had lathered |
| they | had lathered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lather |
| you | would lather |
| he;she;it | would lather |
| we | would lather |
| you | would lather |
| they | would lather |
Perfect
| I | would have lathered |
| you | would have lathered |
| he;she;it | would have lathered |
| we | would have lathered |
| you | would have lathered |
| they | would have lathered |
Imperative
| you | lather |
| we | Let's lather |
| you | lather |
Verbs conjugated like 'lather'
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 'lather'
blather,
father,
gather,
lathe,
leather,
rather,
slather,
atter,
bathe,
batter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- beating the human body with special implements
- cut, feague, flagellate, flog, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, scutch, slash, strap, stripe, whip, thresh, whoop, yark
- foam
- froth, suds, bubbles, spume, cream
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English letheren, from Old English līeþran, from Proto-West Germanic *lauþrijan, from Proto-Germanic *lauþrijaną (“to soap, wash”). Cognate with Old Norse leyðra (“to wash, lather”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*lauþrijaną'.
Sample Sentences
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I lathered my body with lavender-scented soap.
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I woke Corporal Honda to see to the horse. Heavily lathered and breathing hard, it had obviously come a long way at high speed. [1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 147:]