Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hamster
Participle: hamstered
Gerund: hamstering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hamster |
| you | hamster |
| he;she;it | hamsters |
| we | hamster |
| you | hamster |
| they | hamster |
Perfect
| I | have hamstered |
| you | have hamstered |
| he;she;it | has hamstered |
| we | have hamstered |
| you | have hamstered |
| they | have hamstered |
Past
| I | hamstered |
| you | hamstered |
| he;she;it | hamstered |
| we | hamstered |
| you | hamstered |
| they | hamstered |
Pluperfect
| I | had hamstered |
| you | had hamstered |
| he;she;it | had hamstered |
| we | had hamstered |
| you | had hamstered |
| they | had hamstered |
Future
| I | will hamster |
| you | will hamster |
| he;she;it | will hamster |
| we | will hamster |
| you | will hamster |
| they | will hamster |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hamstered |
| you | will have hamstered |
| he;she;it | will have hamstered |
| we | will have hamstered |
| you | will have hamstered |
| they | will have hamstered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hamster |
| you | hamster |
| he;she;it | hamster |
| we | hamster |
| you | hamster |
| they | hamster |
Perfect
| I | have hamstered |
| you | have hamstered |
| he;she;it | have hamstered |
| we | have hamstered |
| you | have hamstered |
| they | have hamstered |
Imperfect
| I | hamstered |
| you | hamstered |
| he;she;it | hamstered |
| we | hamstered |
| you | hamstered |
| they | hamstered |
Pluperfect
| I | had hamstered |
| you | had hamstered |
| he;she;it | had hamstered |
| we | had hamstered |
| you | had hamstered |
| they | had hamstered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hamster |
| you | would hamster |
| he;she;it | would hamster |
| we | would hamster |
| you | would hamster |
| they | would hamster |
Perfect
| I | would have hamstered |
| you | would have hamstered |
| he;she;it | would have hamstered |
| we | would have hamstered |
| you | would have hamstered |
| they | would have hamstered |
Imperative
| you | hamster |
| we | Let's hamster |
| you | hamster |
Verbs conjugated like 'hamster'
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 'hamster'
easter,
gaster,
halter,
hammer,
hamper,
haste,
hasten,
hatter,
hipster,
holster,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.
Sample Sentences
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Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble. [1974, Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life, page 43:]
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[…] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored […] [2004, Sharon L. Pywell, What Happened to Henry, page 50:]
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[…] eastern children frequently “hamstered,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform […] [2014, Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain:]