Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to coll
Participle: colled
Gerund: colling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | coll |
| you | coll |
| he;she;it | colls |
| we | coll |
| you | coll |
| they | coll |
Perfect
| I | have colled |
| you | have colled |
| he;she;it | has colled |
| we | have colled |
| you | have colled |
| they | have colled |
Past
| I | colled |
| you | colled |
| he;she;it | colled |
| we | colled |
| you | colled |
| they | colled |
Pluperfect
| I | had colled |
| you | had colled |
| he;she;it | had colled |
| we | had colled |
| you | had colled |
| they | had colled |
Future
| I | will coll |
| you | will coll |
| he;she;it | will coll |
| we | will coll |
| you | will coll |
| they | will coll |
Future Perfect
| I | will have colled |
| you | will have colled |
| he;she;it | will have colled |
| we | will have colled |
| you | will have colled |
| they | will have colled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | coll |
| you | coll |
| he;she;it | coll |
| we | coll |
| you | coll |
| they | coll |
Perfect
| I | have colled |
| you | have colled |
| he;she;it | have colled |
| we | have colled |
| you | have colled |
| they | have colled |
Imperfect
| I | colled |
| you | colled |
| he;she;it | colled |
| we | colled |
| you | colled |
| they | colled |
Pluperfect
| I | had colled |
| you | had colled |
| he;she;it | had colled |
| we | had colled |
| you | had colled |
| they | had colled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would coll |
| you | would coll |
| he;she;it | would coll |
| we | would coll |
| you | would coll |
| they | would coll |
Perfect
| I | would have colled |
| you | would have colled |
| he;she;it | would have colled |
| we | would have colled |
| you | would have colled |
| they | would have colled |
Imperative
| you | coll |
| we | Let's coll |
| you | coll |
Verbs conjugated like 'coll'
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 'coll'
boll,
call,
cell,
coal,
coil,
colly,
colt,
cool,
cowl,
cull,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to clasp in the arms with affection
- accoll, amplect, beclip, clip, complect, comply, cwtch, embrace, enfold, enhalse, fall on someone's neck, fathom, glomp, halse, hug, infold, oxter, press, squeeze, umbeclap
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English collen, from Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).
Sample Sentences
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So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 420:]
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"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ... [1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines:]
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'You couldn't expect her to throw her arms round 'ee, an' to kiss and to coll 'ee all at once.' [1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82:]
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They kissed and colled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own. [1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:]