Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to trombone
Participle: tromboned
Gerund: tromboning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | trombone |
| you | trombone |
| he;she;it | trombones |
| we | trombone |
| you | trombone |
| they | trombone |
Perfect
| I | have tromboned |
| you | have tromboned |
| he;she;it | has tromboned |
| we | have tromboned |
| you | have tromboned |
| they | have tromboned |
Past
| I | tromboned |
| you | tromboned |
| he;she;it | tromboned |
| we | tromboned |
| you | tromboned |
| they | tromboned |
Pluperfect
| I | had tromboned |
| you | had tromboned |
| he;she;it | had tromboned |
| we | had tromboned |
| you | had tromboned |
| they | had tromboned |
Future
| I | will trombone |
| you | will trombone |
| he;she;it | will trombone |
| we | will trombone |
| you | will trombone |
| they | will trombone |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tromboned |
| you | will have tromboned |
| he;she;it | will have tromboned |
| we | will have tromboned |
| you | will have tromboned |
| they | will have tromboned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | trombone |
| you | trombone |
| he;she;it | trombone |
| we | trombone |
| you | trombone |
| they | trombone |
Perfect
| I | have tromboned |
| you | have tromboned |
| he;she;it | have tromboned |
| we | have tromboned |
| you | have tromboned |
| they | have tromboned |
Imperfect
| I | tromboned |
| you | tromboned |
| he;she;it | tromboned |
| we | tromboned |
| you | tromboned |
| they | tromboned |
Pluperfect
| I | had tromboned |
| you | had tromboned |
| he;she;it | had tromboned |
| we | had tromboned |
| you | had tromboned |
| they | had tromboned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would trombone |
| you | would trombone |
| he;she;it | would trombone |
| we | would trombone |
| you | would trombone |
| they | would trombone |
Perfect
| I | would have tromboned |
| you | would have tromboned |
| he;she;it | would have tromboned |
| we | would have tromboned |
| you | would have tromboned |
| they | would have tromboned |
Imperative
| you | trombone |
| we | Let's trombone |
| you | trombone |
Verbs conjugated like 'trombone'
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 'trombone'
thrombose,
combine,
compone,
hambone,
promote,
promove,
propone,
romble,
t-bone,
tombstone,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
2. The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.
Sample Sentences
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[…] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […] [2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine, page 357:]
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He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […] [2014, Henry K. Miller, The Essential Raymond Durgnat, page 71:]