Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to vet
Participle: vetted
Gerund: vetting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | vet |
| you | vet |
| he;she;it | vets |
| we | vet |
| you | vet |
| they | vet |
Perfect
| I | have vetted |
| you | have vetted |
| he;she;it | has vetted |
| we | have vetted |
| you | have vetted |
| they | have vetted |
Past
| I | vetted |
| you | vetted |
| he;she;it | vetted |
| we | vetted |
| you | vetted |
| they | vetted |
Pluperfect
| I | had vetted |
| you | had vetted |
| he;she;it | had vetted |
| we | had vetted |
| you | had vetted |
| they | had vetted |
Future
| I | will vet |
| you | will vet |
| he;she;it | will vet |
| we | will vet |
| you | will vet |
| they | will vet |
Future Perfect
| I | will have vetted |
| you | will have vetted |
| he;she;it | will have vetted |
| we | will have vetted |
| you | will have vetted |
| they | will have vetted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | vet |
| you | vet |
| he;she;it | vet |
| we | vet |
| you | vet |
| they | vet |
Perfect
| I | have vetted |
| you | have vetted |
| he;she;it | have vetted |
| we | have vetted |
| you | have vetted |
| they | have vetted |
Imperfect
| I | vetted |
| you | vetted |
| he;she;it | vetted |
| we | vetted |
| you | vetted |
| they | vetted |
Pluperfect
| I | had vetted |
| you | had vetted |
| he;she;it | had vetted |
| we | had vetted |
| you | had vetted |
| they | had vetted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would vet |
| you | would vet |
| he;she;it | would vet |
| we | would vet |
| you | would vet |
| they | would vet |
Perfect
| I | would have vetted |
| you | would have vetted |
| he;she;it | would have vetted |
| we | would have vetted |
| you | would have vetted |
| they | would have vetted |
Imperative
| you | vet |
| we | Let's vet |
| you | vet |
Verbs conjugated like 'vet'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'vet'
bet,
fet,
get,
jet,
let,
net,
pet,
ret,
set,
vat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Possibly by analogy from Etymology 1, in the sense of "verifying the soundness [of an animal]"
Verbs referencing "vet"
Maltese
vvettja.
Sample Sentences
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The FBI vets all nominees to the Federal bench.
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Sir Humphrey Appleby: Nevertheless we do not admit it (the existence of MI6). Not everyone round this table has been vetted (pun). / Jim Hacker: I thought that's something you do to cats (laugh track). / Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes indeed, but not ferrets, Minister (laugh track). [1980 March 10, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Economy Drive”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby (Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne):]
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41 year-old Thupten from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture confirmed this threat of punishment. “The people in my area were very discontent when an election was announced. We knew that the candidates selected had already been carefully vetted by higher Chinese officials, and that our ‘voting’ was mere lip-service to Chinese claims of democracy, but we did it anyway. [2000 September, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination in Tibet, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, →OCLC, page 116:]
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House and Senate Committees are made up of elected legislators who vet the bill and hear from stakeholders and members of the public. [2023, “How a Bill Becomes a Law”, in mnnurses.org:]