Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ration
Participle: rationed
Gerund: rationing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ration |
| you | ration |
| he;she;it | rations |
| we | ration |
| you | ration |
| they | ration |
Perfect
| I | have rationed |
| you | have rationed |
| he;she;it | has rationed |
| we | have rationed |
| you | have rationed |
| they | have rationed |
Past
| I | rationed |
| you | rationed |
| he;she;it | rationed |
| we | rationed |
| you | rationed |
| they | rationed |
Pluperfect
| I | had rationed |
| you | had rationed |
| he;she;it | had rationed |
| we | had rationed |
| you | had rationed |
| they | had rationed |
Future
| I | will ration |
| you | will ration |
| he;she;it | will ration |
| we | will ration |
| you | will ration |
| they | will ration |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rationed |
| you | will have rationed |
| he;she;it | will have rationed |
| we | will have rationed |
| you | will have rationed |
| they | will have rationed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ration |
| you | ration |
| he;she;it | ration |
| we | ration |
| you | ration |
| they | ration |
Perfect
| I | have rationed |
| you | have rationed |
| he;she;it | have rationed |
| we | have rationed |
| you | have rationed |
| they | have rationed |
Imperfect
| I | rationed |
| you | rationed |
| he;she;it | rationed |
| we | rationed |
| you | rationed |
| they | rationed |
Pluperfect
| I | had rationed |
| you | had rationed |
| he;she;it | had rationed |
| we | had rationed |
| you | had rationed |
| they | had rationed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ration |
| you | would ration |
| he;she;it | would ration |
| we | would ration |
| you | would ration |
| they | would ration |
Perfect
| I | would have rationed |
| you | would have rationed |
| he;she;it | would have rationed |
| we | would have rationed |
| you | would have rationed |
| they | would have rationed |
Imperative
| you | ration |
| we | Let's ration |
| you | ration |
Verbs conjugated like 'ration'
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 'ration'
oration,
ratio,
ratoon,
action,
baton,
batoon,
caption,
caution,
fraction,
latin,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From French ration. Doublet of reason and ratio.
Sample Sentences
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We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.
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By the third day on the raft, we had to ration our water.
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But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes. [2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2020:]
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I've rationed myself to one cup of coffee a day.
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Our present health care system is rationed only to those who can afford it because of unnecessary high cost, lack of insurance coverage by 47 million people, and exorbitant prescription prices.
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A theocratic state in which an equation is drawn between the Catholic hierarchy and God and the rights of citizens may be rationed by the church according to its doctrines. [1986 December 21, F. Jay Deacon, “Emotionally-Laden Prejudice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 4:]