Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to season
Participle: seasoned
Gerund: seasoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | season |
| you | season |
| he;she;it | seasons |
| we | season |
| you | season |
| they | season |
Perfect
| I | have seasoned |
| you | have seasoned |
| he;she;it | has seasoned |
| we | have seasoned |
| you | have seasoned |
| they | have seasoned |
Past
| I | seasoned |
| you | seasoned |
| he;she;it | seasoned |
| we | seasoned |
| you | seasoned |
| they | seasoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had seasoned |
| you | had seasoned |
| he;she;it | had seasoned |
| we | had seasoned |
| you | had seasoned |
| they | had seasoned |
Future
| I | will season |
| you | will season |
| he;she;it | will season |
| we | will season |
| you | will season |
| they | will season |
Future Perfect
| I | will have seasoned |
| you | will have seasoned |
| he;she;it | will have seasoned |
| we | will have seasoned |
| you | will have seasoned |
| they | will have seasoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | season |
| you | season |
| he;she;it | season |
| we | season |
| you | season |
| they | season |
Perfect
| I | have seasoned |
| you | have seasoned |
| he;she;it | have seasoned |
| we | have seasoned |
| you | have seasoned |
| they | have seasoned |
Imperfect
| I | seasoned |
| you | seasoned |
| he;she;it | seasoned |
| we | seasoned |
| you | seasoned |
| they | seasoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had seasoned |
| you | had seasoned |
| he;she;it | had seasoned |
| we | had seasoned |
| you | had seasoned |
| they | had seasoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would season |
| you | would season |
| he;she;it | would season |
| we | would season |
| you | would season |
| they | would season |
Perfect
| I | would have seasoned |
| you | would have seasoned |
| he;she;it | would have seasoned |
| we | would have seasoned |
| you | would have seasoned |
| they | would have seasoned |
Imperative
| you | season |
| we | Let's season |
| you | season |
Verbs conjugated like 'season'
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 'season'
reason,
beacon,
deacon,
easen,
leasow,
lesson,
mason,
person,
reseason,
sealion,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)). See: Latin '
satiō'.
Sample Sentences
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to season oneself to a climate
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The timber needs to be seasoned.
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The wood has seasoned in the sun.
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When the male hath once ſeaſoned the female, he neuer after toucheth her. [1589, Richard Hakluyt, chapter 22, in The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, part 1, London, page 93:]
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For this prince[…]would not ſuffer the Buls to come unto the Kine and ſeaſon them, before they were both foure yeares old. [1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, book 8, London, translation of Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, chapter 45, page 224:]
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If you had seasoned me with that philosophy, which formeth the mind to ratiocination, and insensibly accustoms it to be satisfied with nothing but solid reasons, if you had given me those excellent precepts and doctrines, which raise the foul above the assaults of fortune, and reduce her to an unshakeable and always equal temper, and permit her not to be lifted up b prosperity, nor debased by adversity, if you had taken care to give me the knowledge of what we are, and what are the first principles of things, and had assisted me in forming in my mind a fit idea of the greatness of the universe, and of the admirable order and motion of the parts thereof, if, I say, you had instilled into me this kind of philosophy, I should think myself incomparably more obliged to you than Alexander was to his Aristotle [1745, A Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 150:]
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In minds, not seasoned and impregnated with the due apprehension of those ends, that conduce to ease and security, there is usually a tempestuous discontent, that raises unruly ferments; an unkind gale, by whose resistless powers, the port is overreached. [1763, Edmund Burton, Antient Characters deduced from Classical Remains, page 82:]