Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to oar
Participle: oared
Gerund: oaring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | oar |
| you | oar |
| he;she;it | oars |
| we | oar |
| you | oar |
| they | oar |
Perfect
| I | have oared |
| you | have oared |
| he;she;it | has oared |
| we | have oared |
| you | have oared |
| they | have oared |
Past
| I | oared |
| you | oared |
| he;she;it | oared |
| we | oared |
| you | oared |
| they | oared |
Pluperfect
| I | had oared |
| you | had oared |
| he;she;it | had oared |
| we | had oared |
| you | had oared |
| they | had oared |
Future
| I | will oar |
| you | will oar |
| he;she;it | will oar |
| we | will oar |
| you | will oar |
| they | will oar |
Future Perfect
| I | will have oared |
| you | will have oared |
| he;she;it | will have oared |
| we | will have oared |
| you | will have oared |
| they | will have oared |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | oar |
| you | oar |
| he;she;it | oar |
| we | oar |
| you | oar |
| they | oar |
Perfect
| I | have oared |
| you | have oared |
| he;she;it | have oared |
| we | have oared |
| you | have oared |
| they | have oared |
Imperfect
| I | oared |
| you | oared |
| he;she;it | oared |
| we | oared |
| you | oared |
| they | oared |
Pluperfect
| I | had oared |
| you | had oared |
| he;she;it | had oared |
| we | had oared |
| you | had oared |
| they | had oared |
Conditional
Present
| I | would oar |
| you | would oar |
| he;she;it | would oar |
| we | would oar |
| you | would oar |
| they | would oar |
Perfect
| I | would have oared |
| you | would have oared |
| he;she;it | would have oared |
| we | would have oared |
| you | would have oared |
| they | would have oared |
Imperative
| you | oar |
| we | Let's oar |
| you | oar |
Verbs conjugated like 'oar'
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 'oar'
bar,
ear,
gar,
hoar,
jar,
mar,
oak,
par,
roar,
soar,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.
Sample Sentences
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The weather was fine, and whilst oaring along I would fain have landed on the islands between; but fearful of a change, and already half worn-out by my previous trail, I let them go by with the comforting resolve of turning them up on some future occasion. [1866, Thomas S. Muir, Barra Head, page 52:]
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Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean. [1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:]
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In Nopsca's theory, flight evolved as a means of running more quickly over the ground: "Birds originated from bipedal, long-tailed cursorial reptiles which during running oared along in the air by flapping their free anterior extremities." [1996, Peter J. Bowler, Life's Splendid Drama:]