Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lubricate
Participle: lubricated
Gerund: lubricating
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | lubricate |
| you | lubricate |
| he;she;it | lubricates |
| we | lubricate |
| you | lubricate |
| they | lubricate |
Perfect
| I | have lubricated |
| you | have lubricated |
| he;she;it | has lubricated |
| we | have lubricated |
| you | have lubricated |
| they | have lubricated |
Past
| I | lubricated |
| you | lubricated |
| he;she;it | lubricated |
| we | lubricated |
| you | lubricated |
| they | lubricated |
Pluperfect
| I | had lubricated |
| you | had lubricated |
| he;she;it | had lubricated |
| we | had lubricated |
| you | had lubricated |
| they | had lubricated |
Future
| I | will lubricate |
| you | will lubricate |
| he;she;it | will lubricate |
| we | will lubricate |
| you | will lubricate |
| they | will lubricate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lubricated |
| you | will have lubricated |
| he;she;it | will have lubricated |
| we | will have lubricated |
| you | will have lubricated |
| they | will have lubricated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lubricate |
| you | lubricate |
| he;she;it | lubricate |
| we | lubricate |
| you | lubricate |
| they | lubricate |
Perfect
| I | have lubricated |
| you | have lubricated |
| he;she;it | have lubricated |
| we | have lubricated |
| you | have lubricated |
| they | have lubricated |
Imperfect
| I | lubricated |
| you | lubricated |
| he;she;it | lubricated |
| we | lubricated |
| you | lubricated |
| they | lubricated |
Pluperfect
| I | had lubricated |
| you | had lubricated |
| he;she;it | had lubricated |
| we | had lubricated |
| you | had lubricated |
| they | had lubricated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lubricate |
| you | would lubricate |
| he;she;it | would lubricate |
| we | would lubricate |
| you | would lubricate |
| they | would lubricate |
Perfect
| I | would have lubricated |
| you | would have lubricated |
| he;she;it | would have lubricated |
| we | would have lubricated |
| you | would have lubricated |
| they | would have lubricated |
Imperative
| you | lubricate |
| we | Let's lubricate |
| you | lubricate |
Verbs conjugated like 'lubricate'
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 'lubricate'
rubricate,
fabricate,
imbricate,
loricate,
lubricitate,
publicate,
relubricate,
ubicate,
abdicate,
affricate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1623, from L. lubricatus, pp. of lubricare "to make slippery or smooth," from lubricus "slippery." Colloquial shortening lube is attested from 1934.
2. Borrowed from Latin lūbricātus, perfect passive participle of lūbricō (“make slippery”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from lūbricus (“slippery”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”).
Sample Sentences
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If your bicycle chain is squeaking you should lubricate it.
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They listened with wonder and pride at their album as it played several times throughout the afternoon, with Cosmo lubricating them with beer and whiskey. [2021, Robert A. Webster, Fossils:]
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At Göbekli Tepe, a site in what is now modern-day Turkey we'll talk about more below, hunter-gatherers convened regularly throughout the tenth to eighth millennia BCE to feast on gazelles, build circular structures, and erect enormous T-shaped limestone pillars carved with mysterious pictograms and animal forms–probably all while well-lubricated with beer. [2021, Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization:]