Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to belay
Participle: belaid
Gerund: belaying
Indicative
Present
| I | belay |
| you | belay |
| he;she;it | belays |
| we | belay |
| you | belay |
| they | belay |
Perfect
| I | have belaid |
| you | have belaid |
| he;she;it | has belaid |
| we | have belaid |
| you | have belaid |
| they | have belaid |
Past
| I | belaid |
| you | belaid |
| he;she;it | belaid |
| we | belaid |
| you | belaid |
| they | belaid |
Pluperfect
| I | had belaid |
| you | had belaid |
| he;she;it | had belaid |
| we | had belaid |
| you | had belaid |
| they | had belaid |
Future
| I | will belay |
| you | will belay |
| he;she;it | will belay |
| we | will belay |
| you | will belay |
| they | will belay |
Future Perfect
| I | will have belaid |
| you | will have belaid |
| he;she;it | will have belaid |
| we | will have belaid |
| you | will have belaid |
| they | will have belaid |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | belay |
| you | belay |
| he;she;it | belay |
| we | belay |
| you | belay |
| they | belay |
Perfect
| I | have belaid |
| you | have belaid |
| he;she;it | have belaid |
| we | have belaid |
| you | have belaid |
| they | have belaid |
Imperfect
| I | belaid |
| you | belaid |
| he;she;it | belaid |
| we | belaid |
| you | belaid |
| they | belaid |
Pluperfect
| I | had belaid |
| you | had belaid |
| he;she;it | had belaid |
| we | had belaid |
| you | had belaid |
| they | had belaid |
Conditional
Present
| I | would belay |
| you | would belay |
| he;she;it | would belay |
| we | would belay |
| you | would belay |
| they | would belay |
Perfect
| I | would have belaid |
| you | would have belaid |
| he;she;it | would have belaid |
| we | would have belaid |
| you | would have belaid |
| they | would have belaid |
Imperative
| you | belay |
| we | Let's belay |
| you | belay |
Verbs conjugated like 'belay'
againsay,
appay,
assay,
belay,
enlay,
forelay,
foresay,
forlay,
forsay,
gainsay,
inlay,
interlay,
lay,
mislay,
mispay,
missay,
outlay,
outstay,
overlay,
overpay, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'belay'
bebay,
begay,
belady,
belam,
belap,
belly,
beray,
besay,
delay,
relay,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to cease to proceed or act
- absist, blin, break off, cease, cess, cheese it, come to an end, desist, discontinue, forbear, halt, have done with, hold, leave off, let up, rest, stanch, staunch, stay, stop, surcease, terminate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
bilecgan "to lay a thing about" (with other objects), from
be- +
lecgan "to lay" (see lay). The only surviving sense is the nautical one of "coil a running rope round a cleat or pin to secure it" (also transferred to mountain-climbing), first attested 1549; but this is possibly a cognate word, from Du.
beleggen.
2. From Middle English beleggen, bileggen, from Old English beleċġan (“to cover, invest, surround, afflict, attribute to, charge with, accuse”), From Proto-West Germanic *bilaggjan, equivalent to be- (“about, around”) + lay. Cognate with Dutch beleggen (“to cover, overlay, belay”), German belegen (“to cover, occupy, belay”), Swedish belägga (“to pave”). See: Dutch '
beleggen', German, old spelling '
belegen', Swedish '
belägga'.
Verbs referencing "belay"
German, old spelling
belegen, Swedish
belägga, Danish
belægge.
Sample Sentences
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He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.
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I could only hope the remaining piton would belay his fall.
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Belay that order!
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"We landed in their killbox?" "We did. I am sor... No, belay that. Heads down! Cavalry incoming!" [2015 February 1, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 14 May 2024:]
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jacket […] belayd with silver lace [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:]