Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pleasure
Participle: pleasured
Gerund: pleasuring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pleasure |
| you | pleasure |
| he;she;it | pleasures |
| we | pleasure |
| you | pleasure |
| they | pleasure |
Perfect
| I | have pleasured |
| you | have pleasured |
| he;she;it | has pleasured |
| we | have pleasured |
| you | have pleasured |
| they | have pleasured |
Past
| I | pleasured |
| you | pleasured |
| he;she;it | pleasured |
| we | pleasured |
| you | pleasured |
| they | pleasured |
Pluperfect
| I | had pleasured |
| you | had pleasured |
| he;she;it | had pleasured |
| we | had pleasured |
| you | had pleasured |
| they | had pleasured |
Future
| I | will pleasure |
| you | will pleasure |
| he;she;it | will pleasure |
| we | will pleasure |
| you | will pleasure |
| they | will pleasure |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pleasured |
| you | will have pleasured |
| he;she;it | will have pleasured |
| we | will have pleasured |
| you | will have pleasured |
| they | will have pleasured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pleasure |
| you | pleasure |
| he;she;it | pleasure |
| we | pleasure |
| you | pleasure |
| they | pleasure |
Perfect
| I | have pleasured |
| you | have pleasured |
| he;she;it | have pleasured |
| we | have pleasured |
| you | have pleasured |
| they | have pleasured |
Imperfect
| I | pleasured |
| you | pleasured |
| he;she;it | pleasured |
| we | pleasured |
| you | pleasured |
| they | pleasured |
Pluperfect
| I | had pleasured |
| you | had pleasured |
| he;she;it | had pleasured |
| we | had pleasured |
| you | had pleasured |
| they | had pleasured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pleasure |
| you | would pleasure |
| he;she;it | would pleasure |
| we | would pleasure |
| you | would pleasure |
| they | would pleasure |
Perfect
| I | would have pleasured |
| you | would have pleasured |
| he;she;it | would have pleasured |
| we | would have pleasured |
| you | would have pleasured |
| they | would have pleasured |
Imperative
| you | pleasure |
| we | Let's pleasure |
| you | pleasure |
Verbs conjugated like 'pleasure'
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 'pleasure'
measure,
plastre,
please,
pleasurize,
pressure,
treasure,
admeasure,
beleagure,
censure,
displeasure,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1390, "condition of enjoyment," from O.Fr.
plesir "enjoyment, delight" (12c.), from
plaisir (v.) "to please," from L.
placere (see
please (v.)). Ending alt. in Eng. 14c. by infl. of words in
-ure (
measure, etc.). Meaning "sensual enjoyment as the chief object of life" is attested from 1526. The verb meaning "to give pleasure to" is recorded from c.1559; sexual sense by c.1616.
2. From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please. See: Latin '
placeō'.
Sample Sentences
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[H]e / [...] / Had tost his ball and flown his kite, and roll'd / His hoop to pleasure Edith, [...] [1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 55:]
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Johnny pleasured Jackie with his mouth last night.
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In the opening scene, Rupert Campbell-Black (played by Alex Hassell), the gravitational center of Cooper’s world, is seen pleasuring a woman in the bathroom of a Concorde jet, thrusting so vigorously that she hardly notices when the plane goes supersonic. [2024 November 26, Sophie Gilbert, “The Silliest, Sexiest Show of the Year”, in The Atlantic:]
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to go pleasuring