Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to phrase
Participle: phrased
Gerund: phrasing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | phrase |
| you | phrase |
| he;she;it | phrases |
| we | phrase |
| you | phrase |
| they | phrase |
Perfect
| I | have phrased |
| you | have phrased |
| he;she;it | has phrased |
| we | have phrased |
| you | have phrased |
| they | have phrased |
Past
| I | phrased |
| you | phrased |
| he;she;it | phrased |
| we | phrased |
| you | phrased |
| they | phrased |
Pluperfect
| I | had phrased |
| you | had phrased |
| he;she;it | had phrased |
| we | had phrased |
| you | had phrased |
| they | had phrased |
Future
| I | will phrase |
| you | will phrase |
| he;she;it | will phrase |
| we | will phrase |
| you | will phrase |
| they | will phrase |
Future Perfect
| I | will have phrased |
| you | will have phrased |
| he;she;it | will have phrased |
| we | will have phrased |
| you | will have phrased |
| they | will have phrased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | phrase |
| you | phrase |
| he;she;it | phrase |
| we | phrase |
| you | phrase |
| they | phrase |
Perfect
| I | have phrased |
| you | have phrased |
| he;she;it | have phrased |
| we | have phrased |
| you | have phrased |
| they | have phrased |
Imperfect
| I | phrased |
| you | phrased |
| he;she;it | phrased |
| we | phrased |
| you | phrased |
| they | phrased |
Pluperfect
| I | had phrased |
| you | had phrased |
| he;she;it | had phrased |
| we | had phrased |
| you | had phrased |
| they | had phrased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would phrase |
| you | would phrase |
| he;she;it | would phrase |
| we | would phrase |
| you | would phrase |
| they | would phrase |
Perfect
| I | would have phrased |
| you | would have phrased |
| he;she;it | would have phrased |
| we | would have phrased |
| you | would have phrased |
| they | would have phrased |
Imperative
| you | phrase |
| we | Let's phrase |
| you | phrase |
Verbs conjugated like 'phrase'
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 'phrase'
phase,
abrase,
acrase,
chase,
crase,
erase,
hase,
parade,
parse,
pease,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1530, "manner or style of expression," also "group of words with some unity," from L.L. phrasis "diction," from Gk. phrasis "speech, way of speaking, phraseology," from phrazein "to express, tell," from phrazesthai "to consider," of unknown origin. The musical sense of "short passage" is from 1789. The verb sense "to put into a phrase" is from 1570. Phraseology "choice or arrangement of words" first recorded 1664.
2. Borrowed from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “to tell, express”).
Sample Sentences
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Miss Ophelia was the absolute bond-slave of the “ _ought_. ” Once make her certain that the “ path of duty, ” as she commonly phrased it, lay in any given direction, and fire and water could not keep her from it. She would walk straight down into a well, or up to a loaded cannon's mouth, if she were only quite sure that there the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] that lay by her side. In fact, Dinah ruled over the woolly heads of the younger members with a rod of iron, and seemed to consider them born for no earthly purpose but to “ save her steps, ” as she phrased it. It was the spirit of the system under which she had grown up, and she carried it out to its full extent.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] dress the bolster up in Miss Ophelia's night-clothes, and enact various performances with that,—singing and whistling, and making grimaces at herself in the looking-glass; in short, as Miss Ophelia phrased it, “ raising Cain ” generally.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)