Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to vacuum
Participle: vacuumed
Gerund: vacuuming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | vacuum |
| you | vacuum |
| he;she;it | vacuums |
| we | vacuum |
| you | vacuum |
| they | vacuum |
Perfect
| I | have vacuumed |
| you | have vacuumed |
| he;she;it | has vacuumed |
| we | have vacuumed |
| you | have vacuumed |
| they | have vacuumed |
Past
| I | vacuumed |
| you | vacuumed |
| he;she;it | vacuumed |
| we | vacuumed |
| you | vacuumed |
| they | vacuumed |
Pluperfect
| I | had vacuumed |
| you | had vacuumed |
| he;she;it | had vacuumed |
| we | had vacuumed |
| you | had vacuumed |
| they | had vacuumed |
Future
| I | will vacuum |
| you | will vacuum |
| he;she;it | will vacuum |
| we | will vacuum |
| you | will vacuum |
| they | will vacuum |
Future Perfect
| I | will have vacuumed |
| you | will have vacuumed |
| he;she;it | will have vacuumed |
| we | will have vacuumed |
| you | will have vacuumed |
| they | will have vacuumed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | vacuum |
| you | vacuum |
| he;she;it | vacuum |
| we | vacuum |
| you | vacuum |
| they | vacuum |
Perfect
| I | have vacuumed |
| you | have vacuumed |
| he;she;it | have vacuumed |
| we | have vacuumed |
| you | have vacuumed |
| they | have vacuumed |
Imperfect
| I | vacuumed |
| you | vacuumed |
| he;she;it | vacuumed |
| we | vacuumed |
| you | vacuumed |
| they | vacuumed |
Pluperfect
| I | had vacuumed |
| you | had vacuumed |
| he;she;it | had vacuumed |
| we | had vacuumed |
| you | had vacuumed |
| they | had vacuumed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would vacuum |
| you | would vacuum |
| he;she;it | would vacuum |
| we | would vacuum |
| you | would vacuum |
| they | would vacuum |
Perfect
| I | would have vacuumed |
| you | would have vacuumed |
| he;she;it | would have vacuumed |
| we | would have vacuumed |
| you | would have vacuumed |
| they | would have vacuumed |
Imperative
| you | vacuum |
| we | Let's vacuum |
| you | vacuum |
Verbs conjugated like 'vacuum'
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 'vacuum'
revacuum,
accumb,
acute,
alum,
backup,
chum,
datum,
gaum,
larum,
macule,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Borrowed from New Latin vacuum (“vacuum”), a subsense of Classical Latin vacuum (“empty space”), a substantivised form of vacuus (“empty”); related to vacāre (“to be empty”).
2. The exercise sense comes from analogy to the sucking action of a vacuum cleaner.
Sample Sentences
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“Who in the world cleans an attic? That's like vacuuming a shed.” [2016, Janice M. Whiteaker, Run:]
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But the advantage of an auto-vacuumed database is that when B-tree pages are no longer needed, they are moved to the end of the database file and then the database file is truncated, thus returning the unused pages back to the filesystem. [2010, Ivan Litovski, Richard Maynard, Inside Symbian SQL: A Mobile Developer's Guide to SQLite, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 337:]