Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to peach
Participle: peached
Gerund: peaching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | peach |
| you | peach |
| he;she;it | peaches |
| we | peach |
| you | peach |
| they | peach |
Perfect
| I | have peached |
| you | have peached |
| he;she;it | has peached |
| we | have peached |
| you | have peached |
| they | have peached |
Past
| I | peached |
| you | peached |
| he;she;it | peached |
| we | peached |
| you | peached |
| they | peached |
Pluperfect
| I | had peached |
| you | had peached |
| he;she;it | had peached |
| we | had peached |
| you | had peached |
| they | had peached |
Future
| I | will peach |
| you | will peach |
| he;she;it | will peach |
| we | will peach |
| you | will peach |
| they | will peach |
Future Perfect
| I | will have peached |
| you | will have peached |
| he;she;it | will have peached |
| we | will have peached |
| you | will have peached |
| they | will have peached |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | peach |
| you | peach |
| he;she;it | peach |
| we | peach |
| you | peach |
| they | peach |
Perfect
| I | have peached |
| you | have peached |
| he;she;it | have peached |
| we | have peached |
| you | have peached |
| they | have peached |
Imperfect
| I | peached |
| you | peached |
| he;she;it | peached |
| we | peached |
| you | peached |
| they | peached |
Pluperfect
| I | had peached |
| you | had peached |
| he;she;it | had peached |
| we | had peached |
| you | had peached |
| they | had peached |
Conditional
Present
| I | would peach |
| you | would peach |
| he;she;it | would peach |
| we | would peach |
| you | would peach |
| they | would peach |
Perfect
| I | would have peached |
| you | would have peached |
| he;she;it | would have peached |
| we | would have peached |
| you | would have peached |
| they | would have peached |
Imperative
| you | peach |
| we | Let's peach |
| you | peach |
Verbs conjugated like 'peach'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'peach'
beach,
geach,
leach,
meach,
peace,
pech,
perch,
pleach,
poach,
preach,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- intransitive
- rat out
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.
Sample Sentences
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If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. [1623, Shakespeare, Henry IV:]
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"But will your cousin tell?" was Ripton's reflection.
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"He!" Richard's lip expressed contempt. "A ploughman refuses to peach, and you ask if a Feverel will?" [1859, George Meredith, chapter 9, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:]
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And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow. [1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, paperback edition, Macmillan Press Ltd, page 21:]
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"Do you think we want to peach? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is.[…]" [1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 123:]
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Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days. [1535, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, volume 9, published 1886, page 387:]
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[…] and finding out the residence of his brother Charles, desires him not to peach him, but to lend him a suit of his fine cloaths, that he might see what it was to be a fine gentleman […] [1774, “The British Theatre”, in London Magazine, volume 43, page 639:]
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Ay, says Will, I am undone for all that; for the officers are after me; and I am a dead dog if I am taken, for George is in custody, and he has peached me and all the others, to save his life. [1840, Daniel Defoe, Life of Colonel Jack: And, a True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal:]