Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to earmark
Participle: earmarked
Gerund: earmarking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | earmark |
| you | earmark |
| he;she;it | earmarks |
| we | earmark |
| you | earmark |
| they | earmark |
Perfect
| I | have earmarked |
| you | have earmarked |
| he;she;it | has earmarked |
| we | have earmarked |
| you | have earmarked |
| they | have earmarked |
Past
| I | earmarked |
| you | earmarked |
| he;she;it | earmarked |
| we | earmarked |
| you | earmarked |
| they | earmarked |
Pluperfect
| I | had earmarked |
| you | had earmarked |
| he;she;it | had earmarked |
| we | had earmarked |
| you | had earmarked |
| they | had earmarked |
Future
| I | will earmark |
| you | will earmark |
| he;she;it | will earmark |
| we | will earmark |
| you | will earmark |
| they | will earmark |
Future Perfect
| I | will have earmarked |
| you | will have earmarked |
| he;she;it | will have earmarked |
| we | will have earmarked |
| you | will have earmarked |
| they | will have earmarked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | earmark |
| you | earmark |
| he;she;it | earmark |
| we | earmark |
| you | earmark |
| they | earmark |
Perfect
| I | have earmarked |
| you | have earmarked |
| he;she;it | have earmarked |
| we | have earmarked |
| you | have earmarked |
| they | have earmarked |
Imperfect
| I | earmarked |
| you | earmarked |
| he;she;it | earmarked |
| we | earmarked |
| you | earmarked |
| they | earmarked |
Pluperfect
| I | had earmarked |
| you | had earmarked |
| he;she;it | had earmarked |
| we | had earmarked |
| you | had earmarked |
| they | had earmarked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would earmark |
| you | would earmark |
| he;she;it | would earmark |
| we | would earmark |
| you | would earmark |
| they | would earmark |
Perfect
| I | would have earmarked |
| you | would have earmarked |
| he;she;it | would have earmarked |
| we | would have earmarked |
| you | would have earmarked |
| they | would have earmarked |
Imperative
| you | earmark |
| we | Let's earmark |
| you | earmark |
Verbs conjugated like 'earmark'
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 'earmark'
arear,
armor,
barback,
barrack,
bemark,
carjack,
damask,
demark,
earbash,
embark,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
The noun is derived from ear + mark. The verb is derived from the noun.
Verbs referencing "earmark"
Welsh
clustnodi.
Sample Sentences
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In barely a decade, the War on Drugs went from being a political slogan to an actual war. Now that police departments were suddenly flush with cash and military equipment earmarked for the drug war, they needed to make use of their new resources. [2012, Michelle Alexander, “The Lockdown”, in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, page 74:]
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But even I draw the line at "doing crunches" in designer clothes. Fashion sneakers are for swanking around the shops, not for running in. And so, like everyone else, I wear grotty old tracksuits earmarked for Oxfam, and tragic free festival T-shirts that give away my age. [2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: The gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2017:]
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You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.
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A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem. [2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales Offers Us a Glimpse of an Integrated Transport Policy”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56:]