Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lever
Participle: levered
Gerund: levering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lever |
| you | lever |
| he;she;it | levers |
| we | lever |
| you | lever |
| they | lever |
Perfect
| I | have levered |
| you | have levered |
| he;she;it | has levered |
| we | have levered |
| you | have levered |
| they | have levered |
Past
| I | levered |
| you | levered |
| he;she;it | levered |
| we | levered |
| you | levered |
| they | levered |
Pluperfect
| I | had levered |
| you | had levered |
| he;she;it | had levered |
| we | had levered |
| you | had levered |
| they | had levered |
Future
| I | will lever |
| you | will lever |
| he;she;it | will lever |
| we | will lever |
| you | will lever |
| they | will lever |
Future Perfect
| I | will have levered |
| you | will have levered |
| he;she;it | will have levered |
| we | will have levered |
| you | will have levered |
| they | will have levered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lever |
| you | lever |
| he;she;it | lever |
| we | lever |
| you | lever |
| they | lever |
Perfect
| I | have levered |
| you | have levered |
| he;she;it | have levered |
| we | have levered |
| you | have levered |
| they | have levered |
Imperfect
| I | levered |
| you | levered |
| he;she;it | levered |
| we | levered |
| you | levered |
| they | levered |
Pluperfect
| I | had levered |
| you | had levered |
| he;she;it | had levered |
| we | had levered |
| you | had levered |
| they | had levered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lever |
| you | would lever |
| he;she;it | would lever |
| we | would lever |
| you | would lever |
| they | would lever |
Perfect
| I | would have levered |
| you | would have levered |
| he;she;it | would have levered |
| we | would have levered |
| you | would have levered |
| they | would have levered |
Imperative
| you | lever |
| we | Let's lever |
| you | lever |
Verbs conjugated like 'lever'
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 'lever'
bever,
fever,
kever,
leer,
leger,
leve,
levee,
level,
leven,
sever,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin levātor (“a lifter”), from levō (“to raise”). Doublet of levator. See: French '
levier', Latin '
levātor'.
Sample Sentences
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With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
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Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming. [1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:]
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Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle. [1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:]
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Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist. [1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1:]
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The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. She levered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door. [2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:]
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He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism. [2001 April 9, Joshua Cooper Ramo, “Bagging the Butcher”, in Time:]
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Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche. [2013 December 8, Robert McCrum, “Biographies of the year — review”, in The Guardian:]
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"The equity holders want you to 'lever up,' use as much debt as you can," said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways, [1989 June 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune:]