Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to klaxon
Participle: klaxoned
Gerund: klaxoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | klaxon |
| you | klaxon |
| he;she;it | klaxons |
| we | klaxon |
| you | klaxon |
| they | klaxon |
Perfect
| I | have klaxoned |
| you | have klaxoned |
| he;she;it | has klaxoned |
| we | have klaxoned |
| you | have klaxoned |
| they | have klaxoned |
Past
| I | klaxoned |
| you | klaxoned |
| he;she;it | klaxoned |
| we | klaxoned |
| you | klaxoned |
| they | klaxoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had klaxoned |
| you | had klaxoned |
| he;she;it | had klaxoned |
| we | had klaxoned |
| you | had klaxoned |
| they | had klaxoned |
Future
| I | will klaxon |
| you | will klaxon |
| he;she;it | will klaxon |
| we | will klaxon |
| you | will klaxon |
| they | will klaxon |
Future Perfect
| I | will have klaxoned |
| you | will have klaxoned |
| he;she;it | will have klaxoned |
| we | will have klaxoned |
| you | will have klaxoned |
| they | will have klaxoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | klaxon |
| you | klaxon |
| he;she;it | klaxon |
| we | klaxon |
| you | klaxon |
| they | klaxon |
Perfect
| I | have klaxoned |
| you | have klaxoned |
| he;she;it | have klaxoned |
| we | have klaxoned |
| you | have klaxoned |
| they | have klaxoned |
Imperfect
| I | klaxoned |
| you | klaxoned |
| he;she;it | klaxoned |
| we | klaxoned |
| you | klaxoned |
| they | klaxoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had klaxoned |
| you | had klaxoned |
| he;she;it | had klaxoned |
| we | had klaxoned |
| you | had klaxoned |
| they | had klaxoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would klaxon |
| you | would klaxon |
| he;she;it | would klaxon |
| we | would klaxon |
| you | would klaxon |
| they | would klaxon |
Perfect
| I | would have klaxoned |
| you | would have klaxoned |
| he;she;it | would have klaxoned |
| we | would have klaxoned |
| you | would have klaxoned |
| they | would have klaxoned |
Imperative
| you | klaxon |
| we | Let's klaxon |
| you | klaxon |
Verbs conjugated like 'klaxon'
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 'klaxon'
blazon,
laxen,
Amazon,
baton,
beacon,
blazen,
capon,
clamor,
clarion,
crayon,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek κλάζω (klázō, “make a sharp sound; scream”). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944).
Sample Sentences
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He headed down the Embankment. It was noon precisely. Big Ben klaxoned the hour with blasts of servo whistle. [1980, John Domatilla [pseudonym; Ian Kennedy Martin], The Last Crime, London: Heinemann, →ISBN; republished [Morrisville, N.C.?]: Lulu Press, 2012, →ISBN, page 50:]
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Suffering. It was like a great discordant symphony ringing out from the world; like a klaxoning of a million million cracked bells. [2005 January, John Shirley, chapter 16, in Constantine: A Novelization [...] Based on Characters from the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer Graphic Novels, Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Star Books, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 252:]
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Century stops before an eel-ship, coiled in jewel-skinned splendor. Its great eye-ports are open, and Century signals with a hand; the eel extends a proboscis lined with diamond mesh and graphene plates like a ramp. Century leads Mere into the eel's body. Alarms klaxon in Mere's head—its escape is known. [2015 December, A. Merc Rustad, “Tomorrow When We See the Sun”, in John Joseph Adams, editor, Lightspeed, number 67, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2017, section II; reprinted in John Joseph Adams, editor, Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far-away Galaxies, New York, N.Y.: Saga Press, Simon & Schuster, 2017, →ISBN, pages 187–188:]