Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to middle
Participle: middled
Gerund: middling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | middle |
| you | middle |
| he;she;it | middles |
| we | middle |
| you | middle |
| they | middle |
Perfect
| I | have middled |
| you | have middled |
| he;she;it | has middled |
| we | have middled |
| you | have middled |
| they | have middled |
Past
| I | middled |
| you | middled |
| he;she;it | middled |
| we | middled |
| you | middled |
| they | middled |
Pluperfect
| I | had middled |
| you | had middled |
| he;she;it | had middled |
| we | had middled |
| you | had middled |
| they | had middled |
Future
| I | will middle |
| you | will middle |
| he;she;it | will middle |
| we | will middle |
| you | will middle |
| they | will middle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have middled |
| you | will have middled |
| he;she;it | will have middled |
| we | will have middled |
| you | will have middled |
| they | will have middled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | middle |
| you | middle |
| he;she;it | middle |
| we | middle |
| you | middle |
| they | middle |
Perfect
| I | have middled |
| you | have middled |
| he;she;it | have middled |
| we | have middled |
| you | have middled |
| they | have middled |
Imperfect
| I | middled |
| you | middled |
| he;she;it | middled |
| we | middled |
| you | middled |
| they | middled |
Pluperfect
| I | had middled |
| you | had middled |
| he;she;it | had middled |
| we | had middled |
| you | had middled |
| they | had middled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would middle |
| you | would middle |
| he;she;it | would middle |
| we | would middle |
| you | would middle |
| they | would middle |
Perfect
| I | would have middled |
| you | would have middled |
| he;she;it | would have middled |
| we | would have middled |
| you | would have middled |
| they | would have middled |
Imperative
| you | middle |
| we | Let's middle |
| you | middle |
Verbs conjugated like 'middle'
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 'middle'
diddle,
fiddle,
hiddle,
maddle,
meddle,
muddle,
piddle,
riddle,
tiddle,
widdle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English myddel, middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Middel (“middle”), West Frisian mul (“middle”), Dutch middel (“means; medicine, cure”), German mittel (“middle”, adjective), Mittel (“means; medicament, remedy”, noun), Luxembourgish Mëttel (“means, method; medicament”), Vilamovian mytuł (“middle”), Yiddish מיטל (mitl, “middle”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk middel (“means”), Icelandic meðal (“average; means, medicine”), Swedish medel (“average, mean, middle”). See also mid.
Sample Sentences
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And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband. [1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:]