Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tetter
Participle: tettered
Gerund: tettering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tetter |
| you | tetter |
| he;she;it | tetters |
| we | tetter |
| you | tetter |
| they | tetter |
Perfect
| I | have tettered |
| you | have tettered |
| he;she;it | has tettered |
| we | have tettered |
| you | have tettered |
| they | have tettered |
Past
| I | tettered |
| you | tettered |
| he;she;it | tettered |
| we | tettered |
| you | tettered |
| they | tettered |
Pluperfect
| I | had tettered |
| you | had tettered |
| he;she;it | had tettered |
| we | had tettered |
| you | had tettered |
| they | had tettered |
Future
| I | will tetter |
| you | will tetter |
| he;she;it | will tetter |
| we | will tetter |
| you | will tetter |
| they | will tetter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tettered |
| you | will have tettered |
| he;she;it | will have tettered |
| we | will have tettered |
| you | will have tettered |
| they | will have tettered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tetter |
| you | tetter |
| he;she;it | tetter |
| we | tetter |
| you | tetter |
| they | tetter |
Perfect
| I | have tettered |
| you | have tettered |
| he;she;it | have tettered |
| we | have tettered |
| you | have tettered |
| they | have tettered |
Imperfect
| I | tettered |
| you | tettered |
| he;she;it | tettered |
| we | tettered |
| you | tettered |
| they | tettered |
Pluperfect
| I | had tettered |
| you | had tettered |
| he;she;it | had tettered |
| we | had tettered |
| you | had tettered |
| they | had tettered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tetter |
| you | would tetter |
| he;she;it | would tetter |
| we | would tetter |
| you | would tetter |
| they | would tetter |
Perfect
| I | would have tettered |
| you | would have tettered |
| he;she;it | would have tettered |
| we | would have tettered |
| you | would have tettered |
| they | would have tettered |
Imperative
| you | tetter |
| we | Let's tetter |
| you | tetter |
Verbs conjugated like 'tetter'
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 'tetter'
better,
fetter,
getter,
letter,
setter,
tatter,
teeter,
tenter,
tether,
titter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).
Sample Sentences
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[…] And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:]
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Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague. [1987, James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death, page 134:]
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I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit! [2009, Adam Thorpe, Hodd, published 2010, page 284:]