Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bower
Participle: bowered
Gerund: bowering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bower |
| you | bower |
| he;she;it | bowers |
| we | bower |
| you | bower |
| they | bower |
Perfect
| I | have bowered |
| you | have bowered |
| he;she;it | has bowered |
| we | have bowered |
| you | have bowered |
| they | have bowered |
Past
| I | bowered |
| you | bowered |
| he;she;it | bowered |
| we | bowered |
| you | bowered |
| they | bowered |
Pluperfect
| I | had bowered |
| you | had bowered |
| he;she;it | had bowered |
| we | had bowered |
| you | had bowered |
| they | had bowered |
Future
| I | will bower |
| you | will bower |
| he;she;it | will bower |
| we | will bower |
| you | will bower |
| they | will bower |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bowered |
| you | will have bowered |
| he;she;it | will have bowered |
| we | will have bowered |
| you | will have bowered |
| they | will have bowered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bower |
| you | bower |
| he;she;it | bower |
| we | bower |
| you | bower |
| they | bower |
Perfect
| I | have bowered |
| you | have bowered |
| he;she;it | have bowered |
| we | have bowered |
| you | have bowered |
| they | have bowered |
Imperfect
| I | bowered |
| you | bowered |
| he;she;it | bowered |
| we | bowered |
| you | bowered |
| they | bowered |
Pluperfect
| I | had bowered |
| you | had bowered |
| he;she;it | had bowered |
| we | had bowered |
| you | had bowered |
| they | had bowered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bower |
| you | would bower |
| he;she;it | would bower |
| we | would bower |
| you | would bower |
| they | would bower |
Perfect
| I | would have bowered |
| you | would have bowered |
| he;she;it | would have bowered |
| we | would have bowered |
| you | would have bowered |
| they | would have bowered |
Imperative
| you | bower |
| we | Let's bower |
| you | bower |
Verbs conjugated like 'bower'
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 'bower'
bowe,
bowel,
cower,
dower,
lower,
power,
tower,
beer,
bepower,
bever,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. bur "room, hut, dwelling," from P.Gmc. *buraz (cf. Ger. bauer "birdcage"), from base *bu- "to dwell." Modern spelling developed after 1350. Sense of "leafy arbor" (place closed in by trees) is first attested 1523. Hence, too, Australia's bower-bird (1847). New York City's Bowery (1787) was originally a homestead farm (Du. bowerij); used attributively for its squalor since 1840.
2. From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”).
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).
Sample Sentences
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O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell / When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend / In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? [c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 2, lines 80–82:]
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[…]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…] [1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:]
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Flora now calleth forth each flower,
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And bids make readie Maias bower [1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:]