Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mew
Participle: mewed
Gerund: mewing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mew |
| you | mew |
| he;she;it | mews |
| we | mew |
| you | mew |
| they | mew |
Perfect
| I | have mewed |
| you | have mewed |
| he;she;it | has mewed |
| we | have mewed |
| you | have mewed |
| they | have mewed |
Past
| I | mewed |
| you | mewed |
| he;she;it | mewed |
| we | mewed |
| you | mewed |
| they | mewed |
Pluperfect
| I | had mewed |
| you | had mewed |
| he;she;it | had mewed |
| we | had mewed |
| you | had mewed |
| they | had mewed |
Future
| I | will mew |
| you | will mew |
| he;she;it | will mew |
| we | will mew |
| you | will mew |
| they | will mew |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mewed |
| you | will have mewed |
| he;she;it | will have mewed |
| we | will have mewed |
| you | will have mewed |
| they | will have mewed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mew |
| you | mew |
| he;she;it | mew |
| we | mew |
| you | mew |
| they | mew |
Perfect
| I | have mewed |
| you | have mewed |
| he;she;it | have mewed |
| we | have mewed |
| you | have mewed |
| they | have mewed |
Imperfect
| I | mewed |
| you | mewed |
| he;she;it | mewed |
| we | mewed |
| you | mewed |
| they | mewed |
Pluperfect
| I | had mewed |
| you | had mewed |
| he;she;it | had mewed |
| we | had mewed |
| you | had mewed |
| they | had mewed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mew |
| you | would mew |
| he;she;it | would mew |
| we | would mew |
| you | would mew |
| they | would mew |
Perfect
| I | would have mewed |
| you | would have mewed |
| he;she;it | would have mewed |
| we | would have mewed |
| you | would have mewed |
| they | would have mewed |
Imperative
| you | mew |
| we | Let's mew |
| you | mew |
Verbs conjugated like 'mew'
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 'mew'
dew,
hew,
jew,
Jew,
lew,
meaw,
meow,
mewl,
mow,
new,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "cage," c.1300, from O.Fr. mue "cage for hawks, especially when molting," from muer "to molt," from L. mutare "to change" (see mutate).
2. From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).
Sample Sentences
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More pity that the eagle should be mew’d,
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While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall
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Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall; [c. 1596, John Donne, “Elegie XX: Loves Warre”, in Charles M. Coffin, editor, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, New York: Modern Library, page 84:]
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1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10,
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[…] Nay some have learn’d the trick
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To beg for absent persons; feign them sick,
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Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:
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When it came to his turn to mention Sir John Sparkle, he represented him as a man of an immense estate and narrow disposition, who mewed up his only child, a fine young lady, from the conversation of mankind, under the strict watch and inspection of an old governante, who was either so honest, envious, or insatiable, that nobody had been as yet able to make her a friend, or get access to her charge, though numbers attempted it every day […] [1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 50, in The Adventures of Roderick Random.:]
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[…] it was all very well for Orlando to mew herself in her house at Blackfriars and pretend that the climate was the same […] [1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 5, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:]
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The hawk mewed his feathers.
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Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; […] [1620, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 10”, in A Feast for Wormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, […], →OCLC, signature H3, recto:]
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Nine times the moon had mewed her horns […] [1700, [John] Dryden, “Cinyras and Myrrha, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 184:]