Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to roll about
Participle: rolled about
Gerund: rolling about
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | roll about |
| you | roll about |
| he;she;it | rolls about |
| we | roll about |
| you | roll about |
| they | roll about |
Perfect
| I | have rolled about |
| you | have rolled about |
| he;she;it | has rolled about |
| we | have rolled about |
| you | have rolled about |
| they | have rolled about |
Past
| I | rolled about |
| you | rolled about |
| he;she;it | rolled about |
| we | rolled about |
| you | rolled about |
| they | rolled about |
Pluperfect
| I | had rolled about |
| you | had rolled about |
| he;she;it | had rolled about |
| we | had rolled about |
| you | had rolled about |
| they | had rolled about |
Future
| I | will roll about |
| you | will roll about |
| he;she;it | will roll about |
| we | will roll about |
| you | will roll about |
| they | will roll about |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rolled about |
| you | will have rolled about |
| he;she;it | will have rolled about |
| we | will have rolled about |
| you | will have rolled about |
| they | will have rolled about |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | roll about |
| you | roll about |
| he;she;it | roll about |
| we | roll about |
| you | roll about |
| they | roll about |
Perfect
| I | have rolled about |
| you | have rolled about |
| he;she;it | have rolled about |
| we | have rolled about |
| you | have rolled about |
| they | have rolled about |
Imperfect
| I | rolled about |
| you | rolled about |
| he;she;it | rolled about |
| we | rolled about |
| you | rolled about |
| they | rolled about |
Pluperfect
| I | had rolled about |
| you | had rolled about |
| he;she;it | had rolled about |
| we | had rolled about |
| you | had rolled about |
| they | had rolled about |
Conditional
Present
| I | would roll about |
| you | would roll about |
| he;she;it | would roll about |
| we | would roll about |
| you | would roll about |
| they | would roll about |
Perfect
| I | would have rolled about |
| you | would have rolled about |
| he;she;it | would have rolled about |
| we | would have rolled about |
| you | would have rolled about |
| they | would have rolled about |
Imperative
| you | roll about |
| we | Let's roll about |
| you | roll about |
Verbs conjugated like 'roll'
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 'roll'
boll,
coll,
droll,
loll,
poll,
proll,
rill,
roil,
rolf,
rool,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- turn
- revolve, rotate, spin, whirl, wheel, gyrate, bowl
- wave
- undulate, billow, surge, flow, sway, rock, swing, tilt
- envelop
- cover, enfold, wrap
Antonyms
- turn
- stability, unchangeableness, continuity, uniformity
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
~ about,
~ around,
~ round,
~ back something,
~ something back,
~ back,
~ in,
~ on,
~ out something,
~ something out,
~ out somebody,
~ somebody out,
~ over something,
~ something over,
~ up something,
~ something up,
~ up,
Etymology
1. From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.
2. Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow. See: Old French '
roller'.
Verbs referencing "roll"
Scots Gaelic
rolaig, Welsh
rholio.
Sample Sentences
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[...] either side, extending down its whole dreary length, was a long, long table, over each of which a rack, fixed to the low roof, and stuck full of drinking-glasses and cruet-stands, hinted dismally at rolling seas and heavy weather. I had not at that time seen the ideal presentment of this chamber which has since gratified me so much, but I observed that one of our friends who had made the arrangements [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] gained the surface, she throws a summerset. The instant she is on her legs, she rushes backward. And so she goes on staggering, heaving, wrestling, leaping, diving, jumping, pitching, throbbing, rolling, and rocking: and going through all these movements, sometimes by turns, and sometimes altogether: until one feels disposed to roar for mercy.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Atlantic, it is impossible for the most vivid imagination to conceive. To say that she is flung down on her side in the waves, with her masts dipping into them, and that, springing up again, she rolls over on the other side, until a heavy sea strikes her with the noise of a hundred great guns, and hurls her back—that she stops, and staggers, and shivers, as though stunned, and then, with a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] roll slowly down to the other end ! And when I staggered to that end, and held out the glass once more, how immensely baffled were my good intentions by the ship giving another lurch, and their all rolling back again ! I suppose I dodged them up and down this sofa for at least a quarter of an hour, without reaching them once; and by the time I did catch them, the brandy-and-water was diminished, by [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the meal with a rather mouldy dessert of apples, grapes, and oranges; and drink our wine and brandy-and-water. The bottles and glasses are still upon the table, and the oranges and so forth are rolling about according to their fancy and the ship 's way, when the doctor comes down, by special nightly invitation, to join our evening rubber: immediately on whose arrival we make a party at whist, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Encountering squally weather again in the Bay of Fundy, we tumbled and rolled about as usual all that night and all next day. On the next afternoon, that is to say, on Saturday, the twenty-second of January, an American pilot-boat came alongside, and soon afterwards the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] say, that one of these invaders, with a ready courtesy for which I thank him here most gratefully, went on before to order rooms at the hotel; and that when I followed, as I soon did, I found myself rolling through the long passages with an involuntary imitation of the gait of Mr. T. P. Cooke, in a new nautical melodrama.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Dar ! ” he said, rolling his eyes with an approving grin; “ me fix ’ em ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Let dis child alone for dat ! ” said Sam, rolling up his eyes with a volume of meaning. “ Lord knows ! High ! Didn't say dat ! ” said he, suddenly catching his breath, with a ludicrous flourish of apprehension, which made his mistress laugh, spite [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Thus, all things considered, Haley, with rather an equivocal grace, proceeded to the parlor, while Sam, rolling his eyes after him with unutterable meaning, proceeded gravely with the horses to the stable-yard.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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"Oho, o! On the silver screen..." " You are unstoppable " [vocables] " The sound of lights, rolling, action... Words that enliven you up "
(Geethanjali Malli Vachindi)