Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to laundress
Participle: laundressed
Gerund: laundressing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | laundress |
| you | laundress |
| he;she;it | laundresses |
| we | laundress |
| you | laundress |
| they | laundress |
Perfect
| I | have laundressed |
| you | have laundressed |
| he;she;it | has laundressed |
| we | have laundressed |
| you | have laundressed |
| they | have laundressed |
Past
| I | laundressed |
| you | laundressed |
| he;she;it | laundressed |
| we | laundressed |
| you | laundressed |
| they | laundressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had laundressed |
| you | had laundressed |
| he;she;it | had laundressed |
| we | had laundressed |
| you | had laundressed |
| they | had laundressed |
Future
| I | will laundress |
| you | will laundress |
| he;she;it | will laundress |
| we | will laundress |
| you | will laundress |
| they | will laundress |
Future Perfect
| I | will have laundressed |
| you | will have laundressed |
| he;she;it | will have laundressed |
| we | will have laundressed |
| you | will have laundressed |
| they | will have laundressed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | laundress |
| you | laundress |
| he;she;it | laundress |
| we | laundress |
| you | laundress |
| they | laundress |
Perfect
| I | have laundressed |
| you | have laundressed |
| he;she;it | have laundressed |
| we | have laundressed |
| you | have laundressed |
| they | have laundressed |
Imperfect
| I | laundressed |
| you | laundressed |
| he;she;it | laundressed |
| we | laundressed |
| you | laundressed |
| they | laundressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had laundressed |
| you | had laundressed |
| he;she;it | had laundressed |
| we | had laundressed |
| you | had laundressed |
| they | had laundressed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would laundress |
| you | would laundress |
| he;she;it | would laundress |
| we | would laundress |
| you | would laundress |
| they | would laundress |
Perfect
| I | would have laundressed |
| you | would have laundressed |
| he;she;it | would have laundressed |
| we | would have laundressed |
| you | would have laundressed |
| they | would have laundressed |
Imperative
| you | laundress |
| we | Let's laundress |
| you | laundress |
Verbs conjugated like 'laundress'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'laundress'
undress,
address,
launder,
outdress,
adpress,
aggress,
appress,
buttress,
caress,
congress,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English launder
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
4. Proto-Italic *-āzios
5. Latin -āriusnom.
6. Latin -āriusbor.
7. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
9. Old English -ere
10. Middle English -ere
11. English -er
12. English launderer
13. English ess
14. English laundress
15. From launderer + ess.
Sample Sentences
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‘Sir,’ said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, ‘I’ve laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself. […]’ [1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 26, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:]
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And oh, my dears, real washing is very different work from the dolls’ laundressing—standing round a wash-hand basin placed on a nursery chair, and wasting ever so much beautiful honey-soap in nice clean hot water […] [1875, Mary Louisa Molesworth, “Too Bad”, in Tell Me a Story, 5th edition, London: Macmillan, published 1882, page 169:]
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2007, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name), New York: Norton, Book Three, p. 260,
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Mama got herself free before she had me, and she was laundressing for the British since my early days.