Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pillow
Participle: pillowed
Gerund: pillowing
Indicative
Present
| I | pillow |
| you | pillow |
| he;she;it | pillows |
| we | pillow |
| you | pillow |
| they | pillow |
Perfect
| I | have pillowed |
| you | have pillowed |
| he;she;it | has pillowed |
| we | have pillowed |
| you | have pillowed |
| they | have pillowed |
Past
| I | pillowed |
| you | pillowed |
| he;she;it | pillowed |
| we | pillowed |
| you | pillowed |
| they | pillowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had pillowed |
| you | had pillowed |
| he;she;it | had pillowed |
| we | had pillowed |
| you | had pillowed |
| they | had pillowed |
Future
| I | will pillow |
| you | will pillow |
| he;she;it | will pillow |
| we | will pillow |
| you | will pillow |
| they | will pillow |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pillowed |
| you | will have pillowed |
| he;she;it | will have pillowed |
| we | will have pillowed |
| you | will have pillowed |
| they | will have pillowed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pillow |
| you | pillow |
| he;she;it | pillow |
| we | pillow |
| you | pillow |
| they | pillow |
Perfect
| I | have pillowed |
| you | have pillowed |
| he;she;it | have pillowed |
| we | have pillowed |
| you | have pillowed |
| they | have pillowed |
Imperfect
| I | pillowed |
| you | pillowed |
| he;she;it | pillowed |
| we | pillowed |
| you | pillowed |
| they | pillowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had pillowed |
| you | had pillowed |
| he;she;it | had pillowed |
| we | had pillowed |
| you | had pillowed |
| they | had pillowed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pillow |
| you | would pillow |
| he;she;it | would pillow |
| we | would pillow |
| you | would pillow |
| they | would pillow |
Perfect
| I | would have pillowed |
| you | would have pillowed |
| he;she;it | would have pillowed |
| we | would have pillowed |
| you | would have pillowed |
| they | would have pillowed |
Imperative
| you | pillow |
| we | Let's pillow |
| you | pillow |
Verbs conjugated like 'pillow'
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 'pillow'
billow,
tillow,
willow,
allow,
bellow,
fallow,
fellow,
follow,
gallow,
hallow,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English pilwe, from Old English pyle, pylu (“pillow”), from Proto-West Germanic *pulwī (“pillow”), from Latin pulvīnus (“cushion”), derived from pulvis (“dust”), for the filler of a pillow. Doublet of pulvinus.
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Peel (“pillow”), Alemannic German Pfulme (“pillow”), Dutch peluw (“a long, narrow pillow”), German Pfühl (“a big and soft pillow”), German Low German Pöhl (“pad, pillow, cushion”). See: Alemannic German '
Pfulme'.
Verbs referencing "pillow"
Tok Pisin pilo.
Sample Sentences
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...but Lucy was too thoroughly exhausted to awaken. There she lay, her head pillowed upon her arm, like a child that had cried itself to rest; while Francesca bent over her,... [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 73:]
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As we stop in front of a tenement to watch one of these groups, a dirty baby in a single brief garment—yet a sweet, human little baby despite its dirt and tatters—tumbles off the lowest step, rolls over once, clutches my leg with unconscious grip, and goes to sleep on the flagstones, its curly head pillowed on my boot. [1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 135:]
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She had pillowed her head on her arm. [1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, pages 815–6:]