Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blurb
Participle: blurbed
Gerund: blurbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blurb |
| you | blurb |
| he;she;it | blurbs |
| we | blurb |
| you | blurb |
| they | blurb |
Perfect
| I | have blurbed |
| you | have blurbed |
| he;she;it | has blurbed |
| we | have blurbed |
| you | have blurbed |
| they | have blurbed |
Past
| I | blurbed |
| you | blurbed |
| he;she;it | blurbed |
| we | blurbed |
| you | blurbed |
| they | blurbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had blurbed |
| you | had blurbed |
| he;she;it | had blurbed |
| we | had blurbed |
| you | had blurbed |
| they | had blurbed |
Future
| I | will blurb |
| you | will blurb |
| he;she;it | will blurb |
| we | will blurb |
| you | will blurb |
| they | will blurb |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blurbed |
| you | will have blurbed |
| he;she;it | will have blurbed |
| we | will have blurbed |
| you | will have blurbed |
| they | will have blurbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blurb |
| you | blurb |
| he;she;it | blurb |
| we | blurb |
| you | blurb |
| they | blurb |
Perfect
| I | have blurbed |
| you | have blurbed |
| he;she;it | have blurbed |
| we | have blurbed |
| you | have blurbed |
| they | have blurbed |
Imperfect
| I | blurbed |
| you | blurbed |
| he;she;it | blurbed |
| we | blurbed |
| you | blurbed |
| they | blurbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had blurbed |
| you | had blurbed |
| he;she;it | had blurbed |
| we | had blurbed |
| you | had blurbed |
| they | had blurbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blurb |
| you | would blurb |
| he;she;it | would blurb |
| we | would blurb |
| you | would blurb |
| they | would blurb |
Perfect
| I | would have blurbed |
| you | would have blurbed |
| he;she;it | would have blurbed |
| we | would have blurbed |
| you | would have blurbed |
| they | would have blurbed |
Imperative
| you | blurb |
| we | Let's blurb |
| you | blurb |
Verbs conjugated like 'blurb'
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 'blurb'
blub,
blur,
blurr,
blurt,
barb,
blab,
blare,
bleb,
blirt,
blob,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Coined by American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 on a dust jacket at a trade association dinner. The dust jacket said “YES, this is a “BLURB”!” and featured a (fictitious) “Miss Belinda Blurb” shown calling out, described as “in the act of blurbing”.
Sample Sentences
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When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.” [2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times:]
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The unseemly business of book blurbing has been source of both humor and concern in the pages of The New Yorker. [2012 April 17, Jon Michaud, “Blurb This!”, in The New Yorker:]
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Edward R. Murrow and other leading radio personalities blurbed the book, published in 1950 by Oxford University Press, and Siepmann thanked Paul Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog in his acknowledgments. [2015, Peter Simonson, David W. Park, The International History of Communication Study, page 268:]