Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rocket
Participle: rocketed
Gerund: rocketing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rocket |
| you | rocket |
| he;she;it | rockets |
| we | rocket |
| you | rocket |
| they | rocket |
Perfect
| I | have rocketed |
| you | have rocketed |
| he;she;it | has rocketed |
| we | have rocketed |
| you | have rocketed |
| they | have rocketed |
Past
| I | rocketed |
| you | rocketed |
| he;she;it | rocketed |
| we | rocketed |
| you | rocketed |
| they | rocketed |
Pluperfect
| I | had rocketed |
| you | had rocketed |
| he;she;it | had rocketed |
| we | had rocketed |
| you | had rocketed |
| they | had rocketed |
Future
| I | will rocket |
| you | will rocket |
| he;she;it | will rocket |
| we | will rocket |
| you | will rocket |
| they | will rocket |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rocketed |
| you | will have rocketed |
| he;she;it | will have rocketed |
| we | will have rocketed |
| you | will have rocketed |
| they | will have rocketed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rocket |
| you | rocket |
| he;she;it | rocket |
| we | rocket |
| you | rocket |
| they | rocket |
Perfect
| I | have rocketed |
| you | have rocketed |
| he;she;it | have rocketed |
| we | have rocketed |
| you | have rocketed |
| they | have rocketed |
Imperfect
| I | rocketed |
| you | rocketed |
| he;she;it | rocketed |
| we | rocketed |
| you | rocketed |
| they | rocketed |
Pluperfect
| I | had rocketed |
| you | had rocketed |
| he;she;it | had rocketed |
| we | had rocketed |
| you | had rocketed |
| they | had rocketed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rocket |
| you | would rocket |
| he;she;it | would rocket |
| we | would rocket |
| you | would rocket |
| they | would rocket |
Perfect
| I | would have rocketed |
| you | would have rocketed |
| he;she;it | would have rocketed |
| we | would have rocketed |
| you | would have rocketed |
| they | would have rocketed |
Imperative
| you | rocket |
| we | Let's rocket |
| you | rocket |
Verbs conjugated like 'rocket'
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 'rocket'
docket,
pocket,
racket,
socket,
bracket,
bucket,
cocker,
cricket,
crochet,
jacket,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴.
2. For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”). See: German, old spelling '
Rocken'.
Sample Sentences
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With Free Guy, Reynolds gets just a little more in touch with his Carrey side via nothing less than his own version of The Truman Show, shorn of its daydream dread and rocketed into the age of Fortnite. [2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2022:]
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The project was attractive because of the ability to maximise the use of existing and decommissioned railways, minimise land take, and decrease the amount of disruption during the project. With London land prices rocketing, there was also a significant financial incentive. [2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, pages 48–49:]
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The cost of food in the UK had rocketed by 25% since 2019, the researchers calculated, but if the post-Brexit trade restrictions were not in place then this increase would be only 17% – nearly a third lower. [2023 May 24, Phillip Inman, “Brexit food trade barriers have cost UK households £7bn, report finds”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023:]
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After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.