Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sloom
Participle: sloomed
Gerund: slooming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sloom |
| you | sloom |
| he;she;it | slooms |
| we | sloom |
| you | sloom |
| they | sloom |
Perfect
| I | have sloomed |
| you | have sloomed |
| he;she;it | has sloomed |
| we | have sloomed |
| you | have sloomed |
| they | have sloomed |
Past
| I | sloomed |
| you | sloomed |
| he;she;it | sloomed |
| we | sloomed |
| you | sloomed |
| they | sloomed |
Pluperfect
| I | had sloomed |
| you | had sloomed |
| he;she;it | had sloomed |
| we | had sloomed |
| you | had sloomed |
| they | had sloomed |
Future
| I | will sloom |
| you | will sloom |
| he;she;it | will sloom |
| we | will sloom |
| you | will sloom |
| they | will sloom |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sloomed |
| you | will have sloomed |
| he;she;it | will have sloomed |
| we | will have sloomed |
| you | will have sloomed |
| they | will have sloomed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sloom |
| you | sloom |
| he;she;it | sloom |
| we | sloom |
| you | sloom |
| they | sloom |
Perfect
| I | have sloomed |
| you | have sloomed |
| he;she;it | have sloomed |
| we | have sloomed |
| you | have sloomed |
| they | have sloomed |
Imperfect
| I | sloomed |
| you | sloomed |
| he;she;it | sloomed |
| we | sloomed |
| you | sloomed |
| they | sloomed |
Pluperfect
| I | had sloomed |
| you | had sloomed |
| he;she;it | had sloomed |
| we | had sloomed |
| you | had sloomed |
| they | had sloomed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sloom |
| you | would sloom |
| he;she;it | would sloom |
| we | would sloom |
| you | would sloom |
| they | would sloom |
Perfect
| I | would have sloomed |
| you | would have sloomed |
| he;she;it | would have sloomed |
| we | would have sloomed |
| you | would have sloomed |
| they | would have sloomed |
Imperative
| you | sloom |
| we | Let's sloom |
| you | sloom |
Verbs conjugated like 'sloom'
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 'sloom'
bloom,
cloom,
gloom,
loom,
spoom,
stoom,
blood,
bloop,
boom,
broom,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English slumen, slummen, from Old English *slūmian (“to slumber, sleep gently”), from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”).
Sample Sentences
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The squire sloomed and slept in his chair; and finally, after a cup of tea, went to bed. [1886, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance:]
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To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming! [a. 1853, Jane Ermina Locke, “Elia”, in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company, published 1854, page 193:]
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Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness. [1900, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 181:]
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The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair. [1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude, The Fortune Press, page 66:]
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He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon. [2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water, Berkley Publishing Group (2003), page 205]
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He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed; […] [a. 1807, unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine 1807, reprinted in The Farmer’s Register, Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30), page 540]
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[…] no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places. [1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), page 329]
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It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield; […] [c. 1854, Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, W. Blackwood & Sons (1855), page 17]