Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dub
Participle: dubbed
Gerund: dubbing
Indicative
Present
| I | dub |
| you | dub |
| he;she;it | dubs |
| we | dub |
| you | dub |
| they | dub |
Perfect
| I | have dubbed |
| you | have dubbed |
| he;she;it | has dubbed |
| we | have dubbed |
| you | have dubbed |
| they | have dubbed |
Past
| I | dubbed |
| you | dubbed |
| he;she;it | dubbed |
| we | dubbed |
| you | dubbed |
| they | dubbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dubbed |
| you | had dubbed |
| he;she;it | had dubbed |
| we | had dubbed |
| you | had dubbed |
| they | had dubbed |
Future
| I | will dub |
| you | will dub |
| he;she;it | will dub |
| we | will dub |
| you | will dub |
| they | will dub |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dubbed |
| you | will have dubbed |
| he;she;it | will have dubbed |
| we | will have dubbed |
| you | will have dubbed |
| they | will have dubbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dub |
| you | dub |
| he;she;it | dub |
| we | dub |
| you | dub |
| they | dub |
Perfect
| I | have dubbed |
| you | have dubbed |
| he;she;it | have dubbed |
| we | have dubbed |
| you | have dubbed |
| they | have dubbed |
Imperfect
| I | dubbed |
| you | dubbed |
| he;she;it | dubbed |
| we | dubbed |
| you | dubbed |
| they | dubbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dubbed |
| you | had dubbed |
| he;she;it | had dubbed |
| we | had dubbed |
| you | had dubbed |
| they | had dubbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dub |
| you | would dub |
| he;she;it | would dub |
| we | would dub |
| you | would dub |
| they | would dub |
Perfect
| I | would have dubbed |
| you | would have dubbed |
| he;she;it | would have dubbed |
| we | would have dubbed |
| you | would have dubbed |
| they | would have dubbed |
Imperative
| you | dub |
| we | Let's dub |
| you | dub |
Verbs conjugated like 'dub'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dub'
bub,
cub,
dab,
daub,
dib,
dob,
drub,
due,
dumb,
dun,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to deem; to look upon as; to think of as being
- account, consider, deem, find, interpret, judge, regard, think of, view
- to make pretty
- adorn, apparel, array, beautify, bedeck, deck, deck out, decorate, decore, do up, dress up, embellish, garnish, grace, ornament, prettify, pretty up
- to give a name to
- bename, call, clepe, denominate, designate, entitle, name, nominate, style, term
- strike
- poke, push
- name
- christen, call
Antonyms
- name
- hint, suggest, shadow, person
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).
2. Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word. See: Old French '
adober', French '
adouber', Icelandic '
dubba'.
Verbs referencing "dub"
Swedish
dubba, French
adouber.
Sample Sentences
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You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently. [c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 154, column 2:]
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It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to bear arms against any knight; […]. [1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter II, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 114:]
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They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as “The Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,” Aladdin’s Palace,” and so on. [1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:]
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As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.” [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
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Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. [2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2020, page 70:]
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Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne. [2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:]
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A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. [1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:]
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His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones. [1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:]
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to dub a stick of timber smooth
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For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards [1808, Annual Register:]
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1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
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When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow
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if you can dub a Fly of the exact colour of the Natural Fly, Fish at that instant take, it's sufficient [1689, James Chetham, The Anglers Vade Mecum:]