Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bail
Participle: bailed
Gerund: bailing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bail |
| you | bail |
| he;she;it | bails |
| we | bail |
| you | bail |
| they | bail |
Perfect
| I | have bailed |
| you | have bailed |
| he;she;it | has bailed |
| we | have bailed |
| you | have bailed |
| they | have bailed |
Past
| I | bailed |
| you | bailed |
| he;she;it | bailed |
| we | bailed |
| you | bailed |
| they | bailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had bailed |
| you | had bailed |
| he;she;it | had bailed |
| we | had bailed |
| you | had bailed |
| they | had bailed |
Future
| I | will bail |
| you | will bail |
| he;she;it | will bail |
| we | will bail |
| you | will bail |
| they | will bail |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bailed |
| you | will have bailed |
| he;she;it | will have bailed |
| we | will have bailed |
| you | will have bailed |
| they | will have bailed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bail |
| you | bail |
| he;she;it | bail |
| we | bail |
| you | bail |
| they | bail |
Perfect
| I | have bailed |
| you | have bailed |
| he;she;it | have bailed |
| we | have bailed |
| you | have bailed |
| they | have bailed |
Imperfect
| I | bailed |
| you | bailed |
| he;she;it | bailed |
| we | bailed |
| you | bailed |
| they | bailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had bailed |
| you | had bailed |
| he;she;it | had bailed |
| we | had bailed |
| you | had bailed |
| they | had bailed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bail |
| you | would bail |
| he;she;it | would bail |
| we | would bail |
| you | would bail |
| they | would bail |
Perfect
| I | would have bailed |
| you | would have bailed |
| he;she;it | would have bailed |
| we | would have bailed |
| you | would have bailed |
| they | would have bailed |
Imperative
| you | bail |
| we | Let's bail |
| you | bail |
Verbs conjugated like 'bail'
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 'bail'
ail,
bait,
ball,
basil,
bawl,
boil,
brail,
fail,
hail,
jail,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1. "bond money," 1485, developed from "temporary release from jail" (1466), and that from earlier meaning "captivity, custody" (1259). From O.Fr.
baillier "control, guard, deliver," from L.
bajulare "to bear a burden," from
bajulus "porter," of unknown origin.
2. From Middle English baille, from the Old French verb bailler (“to deliver or hand over”) and noun bail (“lease”), from Latin bāiulāre (“carry or bear”), from baiulus (“porter; steward”) (English: bailiff). See: Latin '
bāiulō'.
Verbs referencing "bail"
Icelandic
beila.
Sample Sentences
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For the first time, the arrests broadened beyond payments to police, with a Ministry of Defence employee and a member of the Armed forces held by police before also being bailed to a date in May. [2012 February 11, David Barrett, “Rupert Murdoch moves to reassure Sun staff after arrests”, in The Telegraph, UK:]
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to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier
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to bail water out of a boat
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we had hard work to reach our haven, having to bail out the water with my straw hat. [November 4, 1857, Henry William Harper, letter to St. John]
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‘Bail out! bail out!’ yelled Job, ‘or we shall founder.’ I seized a large tin bowl with a handle to it, which was fixed under one of the seats, and the three of us bailed away for dear life. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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to bail a boat
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By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out. [1840, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, Chapter XVIII:]
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Ne none there was to reskue her, ne none to baile. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:]