Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rime
Participle: rimed
Gerund: riming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rime |
| you | rime |
| he;she;it | rimes |
| we | rime |
| you | rime |
| they | rime |
Perfect
| I | have rimed |
| you | have rimed |
| he;she;it | has rimed |
| we | have rimed |
| you | have rimed |
| they | have rimed |
Past
| I | rimed |
| you | rimed |
| he;she;it | rimed |
| we | rimed |
| you | rimed |
| they | rimed |
Pluperfect
| I | had rimed |
| you | had rimed |
| he;she;it | had rimed |
| we | had rimed |
| you | had rimed |
| they | had rimed |
Future
| I | will rime |
| you | will rime |
| he;she;it | will rime |
| we | will rime |
| you | will rime |
| they | will rime |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rimed |
| you | will have rimed |
| he;she;it | will have rimed |
| we | will have rimed |
| you | will have rimed |
| they | will have rimed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rime |
| you | rime |
| he;she;it | rime |
| we | rime |
| you | rime |
| they | rime |
Perfect
| I | have rimed |
| you | have rimed |
| he;she;it | have rimed |
| we | have rimed |
| you | have rimed |
| they | have rimed |
Imperfect
| I | rimed |
| you | rimed |
| he;she;it | rimed |
| we | rimed |
| you | rimed |
| they | rimed |
Pluperfect
| I | had rimed |
| you | had rimed |
| he;she;it | had rimed |
| we | had rimed |
| you | had rimed |
| they | had rimed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rime |
| you | would rime |
| he;she;it | would rime |
| we | would rime |
| you | would rime |
| they | would rime |
Perfect
| I | would have rimed |
| you | would have rimed |
| he;she;it | would have rimed |
| we | would have rimed |
| you | would have rimed |
| they | would have rimed |
Imperative
| you | rime |
| we | Let's rime |
| you | rime |
Verbs conjugated like 'rime'
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 'rime'
crime,
dime,
grime,
lime,
mime,
prime,
rame,
rice,
ride,
rike,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”).
2. The verb is derived from the noun. (The Old English equivalent, which did not survive into modern English, was behrīman.)
3. Cognates
4. * Middle Dutch riim, rijm, rīm (modern Dutch rijm (“hoar frost”))
5. * Old Danish *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Danish rim (“hoar frost”))
6. * Old French rime, rimee (Middle French rime, rimee (“hoar frost”), Anglo-Norman rime, rimee (“hoar frost”))
7. * Old High German rīm (Middle High German rīm, Bavarian Reim (“dew; fog; light frost”) (dialectal))
8. * Old Norse hrím (Icelandic hrím, Norwegian rim (“hoar frost”))
9. * Old Saxon hrīm
10. * Old Swedish *riim, *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Swedish rim)
11. * West Frisian rime, rym
Sample Sentences
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―No more ſhall hoary Boreas, iſſuing forth / VVith Eurus, lead the tempeſts of the North; / Rime the pale Davvn, or veil'd in flaky ſhovvers / Chill the ſvveet boſoms of the ſmiling Hours. [1791, [Erasmus Darwin], “Canto IV”, in The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. […], London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, part I (The Economy of Vegetation), page 186, lines 311–314:]
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[T]he hoar was a blanching on post and hedge, riming the dykes, […] [1933 July, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Stratus”, in Cloud Howe, London: Jarrolds Publishers […], →OCLC, page 193:]
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Oh, London, London! […] the mornings silvery gray, and the multitudinous monuments rimed by years, thunder of hoofs in ways without end, and the silence of mighty parks—Bud lay awake in the nights to think of them. [1907, Neil Munro, chapter XXXII, in Bud […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 300:]