Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to amber
Participle: ambered
Gerund: ambering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | amber |
| you | amber |
| he;she;it | ambers |
| we | amber |
| you | amber |
| they | amber |
Perfect
| I | have ambered |
| you | have ambered |
| he;she;it | has ambered |
| we | have ambered |
| you | have ambered |
| they | have ambered |
Past
| I | ambered |
| you | ambered |
| he;she;it | ambered |
| we | ambered |
| you | ambered |
| they | ambered |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambered |
| you | had ambered |
| he;she;it | had ambered |
| we | had ambered |
| you | had ambered |
| they | had ambered |
Future
| I | will amber |
| you | will amber |
| he;she;it | will amber |
| we | will amber |
| you | will amber |
| they | will amber |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ambered |
| you | will have ambered |
| he;she;it | will have ambered |
| we | will have ambered |
| you | will have ambered |
| they | will have ambered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | amber |
| you | amber |
| he;she;it | amber |
| we | amber |
| you | amber |
| they | amber |
Perfect
| I | have ambered |
| you | have ambered |
| he;she;it | have ambered |
| we | have ambered |
| you | have ambered |
| they | have ambered |
Imperfect
| I | ambered |
| you | ambered |
| he;she;it | ambered |
| we | ambered |
| you | ambered |
| they | ambered |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambered |
| you | had ambered |
| he;she;it | had ambered |
| we | had ambered |
| you | had ambered |
| they | had ambered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would amber |
| you | would amber |
| he;she;it | would amber |
| we | would amber |
| you | would amber |
| they | would amber |
Perfect
| I | would have ambered |
| you | would have ambered |
| he;she;it | would have ambered |
| we | would have ambered |
| you | would have ambered |
| they | would have ambered |
Imperative
| you | amber |
| we | Let's amber |
| you | amber |
Verbs conjugated like 'amber'
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 'amber'
camber,
umber,
abear,
aberr,
abet,
admier,
alter,
amble,
amel,
amen,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /ambar/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade”).
2. * The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber". See: English '
lamber'.
Sample Sentences
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ambered wine, an ambered room
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an ambered fly
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For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain. [1885, America the Beautiful:]
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Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lamps ambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke. [2007, Phil Rickman, Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery:]
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The firelight flickered on her rounded cheeks, ambering the pale skin. [2008, Jeri Westerson, Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir:]
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Westward along Lancaster Avenue, among the stone walls and broad driveways of imposing old houses—their lawns dappled with the shade of ambering maples and dusty, bark-peeled sycamores— [2009, Jack Wennerstrom, Black Coffee, page 19:]
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[T]hough many of the pirates protested against these energetic activities[,] he was only pleasantly tired when the lowering, ambering sun began to bounce needles of gold glare off the waves ahead; [2011, Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides:]