Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to quinch
Participle: quinched
Gerund: quinching
Indicative
Present
| I | quinch |
| you | quinch |
| he;she;it | quinches |
| we | quinch |
| you | quinch |
| they | quinch |
Perfect
| I | have quinched |
| you | have quinched |
| he;she;it | has quinched |
| we | have quinched |
| you | have quinched |
| they | have quinched |
Past
| I | quinched |
| you | quinched |
| he;she;it | quinched |
| we | quinched |
| you | quinched |
| they | quinched |
Pluperfect
| I | had quinched |
| you | had quinched |
| he;she;it | had quinched |
| we | had quinched |
| you | had quinched |
| they | had quinched |
Future
| I | will quinch |
| you | will quinch |
| he;she;it | will quinch |
| we | will quinch |
| you | will quinch |
| they | will quinch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have quinched |
| you | will have quinched |
| he;she;it | will have quinched |
| we | will have quinched |
| you | will have quinched |
| they | will have quinched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | quinch |
| you | quinch |
| he;she;it | quinch |
| we | quinch |
| you | quinch |
| they | quinch |
Perfect
| I | have quinched |
| you | have quinched |
| he;she;it | have quinched |
| we | have quinched |
| you | have quinched |
| they | have quinched |
Imperfect
| I | quinched |
| you | quinched |
| he;she;it | quinched |
| we | quinched |
| you | quinched |
| they | quinched |
Pluperfect
| I | had quinched |
| you | had quinched |
| he;she;it | had quinched |
| we | had quinched |
| you | had quinched |
| they | had quinched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would quinch |
| you | would quinch |
| he;she;it | would quinch |
| we | would quinch |
| you | would quinch |
| they | would quinch |
Perfect
| I | would have quinched |
| you | would have quinched |
| he;she;it | would have quinched |
| we | would have quinched |
| you | would have quinched |
| they | would have quinched |
Imperative
| you | quinch |
| we | Let's quinch |
| you | quinch |
Verbs conjugated like 'quinch'
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 'quinch'
quench,
quich,
quitch,
squinch,
bunch,
cinch,
clinch,
crinch,
finch,
flinch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. First attested 1530 as quynche, possibly from unrecorded Middle English *quinchen, itself of obscure origin. Perhaps a fusion of Middle English quicchen, quecchen (“to shake, tremble; twitch, flinch”) and Middle English winchen (“to flinch, wince; veer or move away”), making it equivalent to a blend of quitch + winch.
2. Compare Saterland Frisian kwinkje (“to blink, wink with the eyes”), Middle Dutch quincken, quinken ("to shake, quiver"; whence modern Dutch kwinken, kwinkeleren (“to warble”)), German Low German quinken (“to blink, wink”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'kwinkje', Dutch '
kwinken'.
Sample Sentences
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And therupon to beſtow all my Soldiers in ſuch ſort as I have done, that no part of all that Realm ſhall be able to dare to quinch […] [1598, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande, page 213:]