Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to verse
Participle: versed
Gerund: versing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | verse |
| you | verse |
| he;she;it | verses |
| we | verse |
| you | verse |
| they | verse |
Perfect
| I | have versed |
| you | have versed |
| he;she;it | has versed |
| we | have versed |
| you | have versed |
| they | have versed |
Past
| I | versed |
| you | versed |
| he;she;it | versed |
| we | versed |
| you | versed |
| they | versed |
Pluperfect
| I | had versed |
| you | had versed |
| he;she;it | had versed |
| we | had versed |
| you | had versed |
| they | had versed |
Future
| I | will verse |
| you | will verse |
| he;she;it | will verse |
| we | will verse |
| you | will verse |
| they | will verse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have versed |
| you | will have versed |
| he;she;it | will have versed |
| we | will have versed |
| you | will have versed |
| they | will have versed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | verse |
| you | verse |
| he;she;it | verse |
| we | verse |
| you | verse |
| they | verse |
Perfect
| I | have versed |
| you | have versed |
| he;she;it | have versed |
| we | have versed |
| you | have versed |
| they | have versed |
Imperfect
| I | versed |
| you | versed |
| he;she;it | versed |
| we | versed |
| you | versed |
| they | versed |
Pluperfect
| I | had versed |
| you | had versed |
| he;she;it | had versed |
| we | had versed |
| you | had versed |
| they | had versed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would verse |
| you | would verse |
| he;she;it | would verse |
| we | would verse |
| you | would verse |
| they | would verse |
Perfect
| I | would have versed |
| you | would have versed |
| he;she;it | would have versed |
| we | would have versed |
| you | would have versed |
| they | would have versed |
Imperative
| you | verse |
| we | Let's verse |
| you | verse |
Verbs conjugated like 'verse'
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 'verse'
averse,
everse,
herse,
verge,
adverse,
arse,
bere,
cease,
cense,
cere,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1050, "line or section of a psalm or canticle," later "line of poetry" (c.1369), from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. vers, from L. versus "verse, line of writing," from PIE base *wer- "to turn, bend" (see versus). The metaphor is of plowing, of "turning" from one line to another (vertere = "to turn") as a plowman does. O.E. had fers, an early W.Gmc. borrowing directly from L. Meaning "metrical composition" is recorded from c.1300; sense of "part of a modern pop song" (as distinguished from the chorus) is attested from 1927. The English N.T. first divided fully into verses in the Geneva version (1551).
2. From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] into pits; and even (as in the case of the Welsh Giant ) with an excess of the hospitable politeness of a landlord, ripping themselves open, rather than hint at the possibility of their guests being versed in the vagabond arts of sleight-of-hand and hocus-pocus.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Really, you are quite provident. Well, seeing I 'm in the hands of a Yankee, there is nothing for it but to concede; ” and St. Clare rapidly wrote off a deed of gift, which, as he was well versed in the forms of law, he could easily do, and signed his name to it in sprawling capitals, concluding by a tremendous flourish.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)