Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to manure
Participle: manured
Gerund: manuring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | manure |
| you | manure |
| he;she;it | manures |
| we | manure |
| you | manure |
| they | manure |
Perfect
| I | have manured |
| you | have manured |
| he;she;it | has manured |
| we | have manured |
| you | have manured |
| they | have manured |
Past
| I | manured |
| you | manured |
| he;she;it | manured |
| we | manured |
| you | manured |
| they | manured |
Pluperfect
| I | had manured |
| you | had manured |
| he;she;it | had manured |
| we | had manured |
| you | had manured |
| they | had manured |
Future
| I | will manure |
| you | will manure |
| he;she;it | will manure |
| we | will manure |
| you | will manure |
| they | will manure |
Future Perfect
| I | will have manured |
| you | will have manured |
| he;she;it | will have manured |
| we | will have manured |
| you | will have manured |
| they | will have manured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | manure |
| you | manure |
| he;she;it | manure |
| we | manure |
| you | manure |
| they | manure |
Perfect
| I | have manured |
| you | have manured |
| he;she;it | have manured |
| we | have manured |
| you | have manured |
| they | have manured |
Imperfect
| I | manured |
| you | manured |
| he;she;it | manured |
| we | manured |
| you | manured |
| they | manured |
Pluperfect
| I | had manured |
| you | had manured |
| he;she;it | had manured |
| we | had manured |
| you | had manured |
| they | had manured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would manure |
| you | would manure |
| he;she;it | would manure |
| we | would manure |
| you | would manure |
| they | would manure |
Perfect
| I | would have manured |
| you | would have manured |
| he;she;it | would have manured |
| we | would have manured |
| you | would have manured |
| they | would have manured |
Imperative
| you | manure |
| we | Let's manure |
| you | manure |
Verbs conjugated like 'manure'
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 'manure'
mature,
adure,
azure,
enure,
gaure,
inure,
langure,
macule,
manace,
manage,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1400, "to cultivate land," also "to hold property," from Anglo-Fr.
meynoverer, from O.Fr.
manouvrer "to work with the hands," from M.L.
manuoperare, from L.
manu operari, from
manu, abl. of
manus "hand" (see manual) +
operari "to work, operate" (see operation). Sense of "work the earth" led to "put dung on the soil" (1599) and to the current noun meaning "dung spread as fertilizer," which is first attested 1549. Until late 18c., however, the verb still was used in a fig. sense of "to cultivate the mind, train the mental powers."
"It is ... his own painfull study ... that manures and improves his ministeriall gifts." [Milton, 1641]
2. From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”). Displaced native (in the plural) Old English mes. See: Middle English '
maynouren', Old French '
manovrer', English '
maneuver', French '
manœuvrer'.
Sample Sentences
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A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure. [1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:]
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Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved. [1633, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. Rowland Woodward:]
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The farmer manured his fallow field.
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My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...] [1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]