Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to truth
Participle: truthed
Gerund: truthing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | truth |
| you | truth |
| he;she;it | truths |
| we | truth |
| you | truth |
| they | truth |
Perfect
| I | have truthed |
| you | have truthed |
| he;she;it | has truthed |
| we | have truthed |
| you | have truthed |
| they | have truthed |
Past
| I | truthed |
| you | truthed |
| he;she;it | truthed |
| we | truthed |
| you | truthed |
| they | truthed |
Pluperfect
| I | had truthed |
| you | had truthed |
| he;she;it | had truthed |
| we | had truthed |
| you | had truthed |
| they | had truthed |
Future
| I | will truth |
| you | will truth |
| he;she;it | will truth |
| we | will truth |
| you | will truth |
| they | will truth |
Future Perfect
| I | will have truthed |
| you | will have truthed |
| he;she;it | will have truthed |
| we | will have truthed |
| you | will have truthed |
| they | will have truthed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | truth |
| you | truth |
| he;she;it | truth |
| we | truth |
| you | truth |
| they | truth |
Perfect
| I | have truthed |
| you | have truthed |
| he;she;it | have truthed |
| we | have truthed |
| you | have truthed |
| they | have truthed |
Imperfect
| I | truthed |
| you | truthed |
| he;she;it | truthed |
| we | truthed |
| you | truthed |
| they | truthed |
Pluperfect
| I | had truthed |
| you | had truthed |
| he;she;it | had truthed |
| we | had truthed |
| you | had truthed |
| they | had truthed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would truth |
| you | would truth |
| he;she;it | would truth |
| we | would truth |
| you | would truth |
| they | would truth |
Perfect
| I | would have truthed |
| you | would have truthed |
| he;she;it | would have truthed |
| we | would have truthed |
| you | would have truthed |
| they | would have truthed |
Imperative
| you | truth |
| we | Let's truth |
| you | truth |
Verbs conjugated like 'truth'
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 'truth'
troth,
auth,
brush,
brut,
brute,
crush,
crutch,
euth,
frith,
froth,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *drewH-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *triwwiz
4. Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
5. Proto-Germanic *-iþō
6. Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō
7. Old English trēowþ
8. Middle English trouthe
9. English truth
10. Inherited from Middle English trouthe, from Old English trēowþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from *triwwiz + *-iþō. By surface analysis, true + -th. Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
Sample Sentences
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c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
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Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
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You were sitting with your family Thanksgiving, belly full of turkey and pie, surrounded by the love of your extended crime family, but your initial instinct was to truth a slur at Tim Walz? [2025 December 1, Jon Stewart, “Trump Berates Reporters, Gets Mystery MRI & Closes Border to (Non-White) Immigrants”https://youtu.be/4STrDD7leEM?t=325s, The Daily Show, Comedy Central]
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A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth. [1974, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 226:]
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As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all. [1990, Advanced Infrared Technology - Part 2, page cxxvi:]
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This database, which consisists of nearly 180,000 characters, was manually truthed. [2003, Advances in Pattern Recognition ICAPR2003, →ISBN, page 67:]
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You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin' [1966, Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin':]