Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to halse
Participle: halsed
Gerund: halsing
Indicative
Present
| I | halse |
| you | halse |
| he;she;it | halses |
| we | halse |
| you | halse |
| they | halse |
Perfect
| I | have halsed |
| you | have halsed |
| he;she;it | has halsed |
| we | have halsed |
| you | have halsed |
| they | have halsed |
Past
| I | halsed |
| you | halsed |
| he;she;it | halsed |
| we | halsed |
| you | halsed |
| they | halsed |
Pluperfect
| I | had halsed |
| you | had halsed |
| he;she;it | had halsed |
| we | had halsed |
| you | had halsed |
| they | had halsed |
Future
| I | will halse |
| you | will halse |
| he;she;it | will halse |
| we | will halse |
| you | will halse |
| they | will halse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have halsed |
| you | will have halsed |
| he;she;it | will have halsed |
| we | will have halsed |
| you | will have halsed |
| they | will have halsed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | halse |
| you | halse |
| he;she;it | halse |
| we | halse |
| you | halse |
| they | halse |
Perfect
| I | have halsed |
| you | have halsed |
| he;she;it | have halsed |
| we | have halsed |
| you | have halsed |
| they | have halsed |
Imperfect
| I | halsed |
| you | halsed |
| he;she;it | halsed |
| we | halsed |
| you | halsed |
| they | halsed |
Pluperfect
| I | had halsed |
| you | had halsed |
| he;she;it | had halsed |
| we | had halsed |
| you | had halsed |
| they | had halsed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would halse |
| you | would halse |
| he;she;it | would halse |
| we | would halse |
| you | would halse |
| they | would halse |
Perfect
| I | would have halsed |
| you | would have halsed |
| he;she;it | would have halsed |
| we | would have halsed |
| you | would have halsed |
| they | would have halsed |
Imperative
| you | halse |
| we | Let's halse |
| you | halse |
Verbs conjugated like 'halse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'halse'
false,
hailse,
hale,
halsen,
halve,
hase,
haulse,
hawse,
alose,
arse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to clasp in the arms with affection
- accoll, amplect, beclip, clip, coll, complect, comply, cwtch, embrace, enfold, enhalse, fall on someone's neck, fathom, glomp, hug, infold, oxter, press, squeeze, umbeclap
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English halsen, halchen, from Old English *halsian, *healsian (“to embrace”, literally “to fall upon the neck of”), from heals (“neck”). See above. Cognate with Old Saxon helsjen (“to embrace”), Old High German halsōn (German halsen (“to jibe”)), Icelandic hálsa (“to embrace”). See: Middle English '
halsen', German, old spelling '
halsen', Icelandic '
hálsa'.
Verbs referencing "halse"
Danish
hilse.
Sample Sentences
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soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:]