Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lope
Participle: loped
Gerund: loping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lope |
| you | lope |
| he;she;it | lopes |
| we | lope |
| you | lope |
| they | lope |
Perfect
| I | have loped |
| you | have loped |
| he;she;it | has loped |
| we | have loped |
| you | have loped |
| they | have loped |
Past
| I | loped |
| you | loped |
| he;she;it | loped |
| we | loped |
| you | loped |
| they | loped |
Pluperfect
| I | had loped |
| you | had loped |
| he;she;it | had loped |
| we | had loped |
| you | had loped |
| they | had loped |
Future
| I | will lope |
| you | will lope |
| he;she;it | will lope |
| we | will lope |
| you | will lope |
| they | will lope |
Future Perfect
| I | will have loped |
| you | will have loped |
| he;she;it | will have loped |
| we | will have loped |
| you | will have loped |
| they | will have loped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lope |
| you | lope |
| he;she;it | lope |
| we | lope |
| you | lope |
| they | lope |
Perfect
| I | have loped |
| you | have loped |
| he;she;it | have loped |
| we | have loped |
| you | have loped |
| they | have loped |
Imperfect
| I | loped |
| you | loped |
| he;she;it | loped |
| we | loped |
| you | loped |
| they | loped |
Pluperfect
| I | had loped |
| you | had loped |
| he;she;it | had loped |
| we | had loped |
| you | had loped |
| they | had loped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lope |
| you | would lope |
| he;she;it | would lope |
| we | would lope |
| you | would lope |
| they | would lope |
Perfect
| I | would have loped |
| you | would have loped |
| he;she;it | would have loped |
| we | would have loped |
| you | would have loped |
| they | would have loped |
Imperative
| you | lope |
| we | Let's lope |
| you | lope |
Verbs conjugated like 'lope'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lope'
cope,
dope,
elope,
glope,
hope,
lofe,
lop,
lose,
lote,
love,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to run with long strides," c.1825; earlier "to leap, jump, spring" (1483), from O.N.
hlaupa "to run, leap," from same Gmc. root as
leap and
gallop.
2. From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap. See: Middle English '
lopen', German, old spelling '
laufen', Danish '
løbe', Dutch '
lopen'.
Sample Sentences
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He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
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Scott hurried down the dark path, lifted the canoe from the muddy rock to the moss, took out the packs, and loped back. toward the cabin. As he passed the window he glanced inside. [1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg:]
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And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […] [1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 5, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 5:]
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“And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass. “Fun, are they? High living?” [1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:]
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And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver [1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:]
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1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy
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he that lopes on the ropes