Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bunker
Participle: bunkered
Gerund: bunkering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bunker |
| you | bunker |
| he;she;it | bunkers |
| we | bunker |
| you | bunker |
| they | bunker |
Perfect
| I | have bunkered |
| you | have bunkered |
| he;she;it | has bunkered |
| we | have bunkered |
| you | have bunkered |
| they | have bunkered |
Past
| I | bunkered |
| you | bunkered |
| he;she;it | bunkered |
| we | bunkered |
| you | bunkered |
| they | bunkered |
Pluperfect
| I | had bunkered |
| you | had bunkered |
| he;she;it | had bunkered |
| we | had bunkered |
| you | had bunkered |
| they | had bunkered |
Future
| I | will bunker |
| you | will bunker |
| he;she;it | will bunker |
| we | will bunker |
| you | will bunker |
| they | will bunker |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bunkered |
| you | will have bunkered |
| he;she;it | will have bunkered |
| we | will have bunkered |
| you | will have bunkered |
| they | will have bunkered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bunker |
| you | bunker |
| he;she;it | bunker |
| we | bunker |
| you | bunker |
| they | bunker |
Perfect
| I | have bunkered |
| you | have bunkered |
| he;she;it | have bunkered |
| we | have bunkered |
| you | have bunkered |
| they | have bunkered |
Imperfect
| I | bunkered |
| you | bunkered |
| he;she;it | bunkered |
| we | bunkered |
| you | bunkered |
| they | bunkered |
Pluperfect
| I | had bunkered |
| you | had bunkered |
| he;she;it | had bunkered |
| we | had bunkered |
| you | had bunkered |
| they | had bunkered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bunker |
| you | would bunker |
| he;she;it | would bunker |
| we | would bunker |
| you | would bunker |
| they | would bunker |
Perfect
| I | would have bunkered |
| you | would have bunkered |
| he;she;it | would have bunkered |
| we | would have bunkered |
| you | would have bunkered |
| they | would have bunkered |
Imperative
| you | bunker |
| we | Let's bunker |
| you | bunker |
Verbs conjugated like 'bunker'
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 'bunker'
hunker,
banner,
banter,
bicker,
binner,
blinker,
blunder,
broker,
bucket,
buckler,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The origin of the noun is uncertain; the earliest sense is sense 7.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from Scots bunker (“bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”), from Early Scots bunker, bunkur, bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), probably from Old Norse bunki (“a heap”) (probably whence bunk (“sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”) or *bʰeg- (“to billow, swell; to arch, bend, curve (?)”). Compare Middle Low German bunge (“drum, container”), Middle High German bunge (“drum”). Sense 1 (“hardened shelter designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks”) was derived from German Bunker during World War II, which was itself from bunker (“large bin or container for storing coal”) (sense 5).
2. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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Proteus. Or we resign and tell the country that we cant carry on the King's Government under conditions which destroy our responsibility. / Balbus. Thatll do it. He couldnt face that. / Crassus. Yes: thatll bunker him. [1928 December (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, London: Constable and Company, published 1930, →OCLC, Act I, page 18:]
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As troops swarmed the streets below and gun battles continued to rage, I bunkered in a room on the top floor of a building in the middle of the red zone. Redshirt spokesman Sean Boonpracong sought refuge there too. Protesters burned a train station below, hurling tyres on to an already roaring blaze across the tracks. [2010 May 19, Ben Doherty, “Thai soldiers arrest protest leaders in bloody 'final crackdown'”, in The Guardian:]
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More than 10,000 people were bunkering in 20 emergency shelters across the disaster zone, not all of them cyclone-rated. [2012 September 17, Michael McKenna, Tony Koch, “Cyclone Yasi crosses coast in North's darkest hour”, in The Australian:]
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The Kyiv Zoo staff and their families are bunkering at the zoo as they care for the animals housed there amid the war in Ukraine. [2022 March 6, Heather Hamilton, “Kyiv Zoo staff and families care for nearly 4,000 animals amid war in Ukraine”, in Washington Examiner:]