Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to honeycomb
Participle: honeycombed
Gerund: honeycombing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | honeycomb |
| you | honeycomb |
| he;she;it | honeycombs |
| we | honeycomb |
| you | honeycomb |
| they | honeycomb |
Perfect
| I | have honeycombed |
| you | have honeycombed |
| he;she;it | has honeycombed |
| we | have honeycombed |
| you | have honeycombed |
| they | have honeycombed |
Past
| I | honeycombed |
| you | honeycombed |
| he;she;it | honeycombed |
| we | honeycombed |
| you | honeycombed |
| they | honeycombed |
Pluperfect
| I | had honeycombed |
| you | had honeycombed |
| he;she;it | had honeycombed |
| we | had honeycombed |
| you | had honeycombed |
| they | had honeycombed |
Future
| I | will honeycomb |
| you | will honeycomb |
| he;she;it | will honeycomb |
| we | will honeycomb |
| you | will honeycomb |
| they | will honeycomb |
Future Perfect
| I | will have honeycombed |
| you | will have honeycombed |
| he;she;it | will have honeycombed |
| we | will have honeycombed |
| you | will have honeycombed |
| they | will have honeycombed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | honeycomb |
| you | honeycomb |
| he;she;it | honeycomb |
| we | honeycomb |
| you | honeycomb |
| they | honeycomb |
Perfect
| I | have honeycombed |
| you | have honeycombed |
| he;she;it | have honeycombed |
| we | have honeycombed |
| you | have honeycombed |
| they | have honeycombed |
Imperfect
| I | honeycombed |
| you | honeycombed |
| he;she;it | honeycombed |
| we | honeycombed |
| you | honeycombed |
| they | honeycombed |
Pluperfect
| I | had honeycombed |
| you | had honeycombed |
| he;she;it | had honeycombed |
| we | had honeycombed |
| you | had honeycombed |
| they | had honeycombed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would honeycomb |
| you | would honeycomb |
| he;she;it | would honeycomb |
| we | would honeycomb |
| you | would honeycomb |
| they | would honeycomb |
Perfect
| I | would have honeycombed |
| you | would have honeycombed |
| he;she;it | would have honeycombed |
| we | would have honeycombed |
| you | would have honeycombed |
| they | would have honeycombed |
Imperative
| you | honeycomb |
| we | Let's honeycomb |
| you | honeycomb |
Verbs conjugated like 'honeycomb'
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 'honeycomb'
honeymoon,
currycomb,
honey,
overcome,
powerbomb,
recomb,
toothcomb,
uncomb,
back-comb,
backcomb,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English honycomb, from Old English huniġcamb, from huniġ (“honey”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks (“honey”)) + camb (“comb”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“peg; tooth; row of teeth”)). The English word is analysable as honey + comb. The Oxford English Dictionary posits that the arrangement of several plates of wax “hanging parallel to each other from the roof of the hive suggests a comb with its teeth”. The verb is derived from the noun. Compare Saterland Frisian Hunichmoarte (“honeycomb”), West Frisian huningskiif (“honeycomb”), Dutch honingraat (“honeycomb”), German Honigwabe (“honeycomb”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Hunichmoarte'.
Sample Sentences
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The ordinary tourist who visits the Boulak museum and the Necropolis of Sakkara, and then runs up to the First or the Second Cataract, is apt to think that the subject must be wellnigh exhausted; and is scarcely conscious of the fact that the banks of the Nile from Cairo to Thebes, between which he glides so rapidly in a Cook's steamer, or, more tranquilly, journeys in a dahabeeya, are strewn with the mounds of ancient cities, especially on the eastern shore, and that its cliffs are honeycombed with tombs. [1882, Laurence Oliphant, “Old and New”, in The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle Nile, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 107:]
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Termites will honeycomb a porch made of untreated pine.
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[M]any of the pillars of the temple of Serapis at Puteoli vvere penetrated by theſe animals. […] [T]he pholas muſt have pierced into them ſince they vvere erected; for no vvorkmen vvould have laboured a pillar into form, if it had been honey-combed by vvorms in the quarry. [1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Multival[v]e Shell-fish”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 62:]
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Twenty ninja followed him from the darkness and another fifteen took up defensive positions at both ends of the corridor to guard this escape route that led through a maze of forgotten cellars and passages honeycombing the castle to one of Ishido's secret bolt holes under the moat, thence to the city. [1975, James Clavell, chapter LVII, in Shōgun: A Novel of Japan, 1st American edition, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books, →ISBN, book V, page 967:]
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New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress. The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144:]