Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to turf
Participle: turfed
Gerund: turfing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | turf |
| you | turf |
| he;she;it | turfs |
| we | turf |
| you | turf |
| they | turf |
Perfect
| I | have turfed |
| you | have turfed |
| he;she;it | has turfed |
| we | have turfed |
| you | have turfed |
| they | have turfed |
Past
| I | turfed |
| you | turfed |
| he;she;it | turfed |
| we | turfed |
| you | turfed |
| they | turfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had turfed |
| you | had turfed |
| he;she;it | had turfed |
| we | had turfed |
| you | had turfed |
| they | had turfed |
Future
| I | will turf |
| you | will turf |
| he;she;it | will turf |
| we | will turf |
| you | will turf |
| they | will turf |
Future Perfect
| I | will have turfed |
| you | will have turfed |
| he;she;it | will have turfed |
| we | will have turfed |
| you | will have turfed |
| they | will have turfed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | turf |
| you | turf |
| he;she;it | turf |
| we | turf |
| you | turf |
| they | turf |
Perfect
| I | have turfed |
| you | have turfed |
| he;she;it | have turfed |
| we | have turfed |
| you | have turfed |
| they | have turfed |
Imperfect
| I | turfed |
| you | turfed |
| he;she;it | turfed |
| we | turfed |
| you | turfed |
| they | turfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had turfed |
| you | had turfed |
| he;she;it | had turfed |
| we | had turfed |
| you | had turfed |
| they | had turfed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would turf |
| you | would turf |
| he;she;it | would turf |
| we | would turf |
| you | would turf |
| they | would turf |
Perfect
| I | would have turfed |
| you | would have turfed |
| he;she;it | would have turfed |
| we | would have turfed |
| you | would have turfed |
| they | would have turfed |
Imperative
| you | turf |
| we | Let's turf |
| you | turf |
Verbs conjugated like 'turf'
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 'turf'
surf,
turn,
barf,
buff,
burk,
burl,
burn,
burp,
burr,
bury,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1. O.E. turf, tyrf "slab of soil and grass," also "surface of grassland," from P.Gmc. *turb- (cf. O.N. torf, Dan. tørv, O.Fris. turf, O.H.G. zurba, Ger. Torf), from PIE base *drbh- (cf. Skt. darbhah "tuft of grass"). Fr. tourbe "turf" is a Gmc. loan-word. The O.E. plural was identical with the singluar, but in M.E. turves sometimes was used. Slang meaning "territory claimed by a gang" is attested from 1953 in Brooklyn, N.Y.; earlier it had a jive talk sense of "the street, the sidewalk" (1930s), which is attested in hobo use from 1899, and before that "the work and venue of a prostitute" (1860). The verb is attested from c.1430, originally "to cover (ground) with turf." Turf war is recorded from 1950s.
2. From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass-covered earth, greensward”), from Proto-West Germanic *turb (“turf, peat”), from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”).
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Scots turr, truff (“turf, peat”), Dutch turf (“turf”), Middle Low German torf (“peat, turf”) (whence German Torf and German Low German Torf), Danish tørv (“peat”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish torv (“turf”), Norn *torv (“peat”), French tourbe (“peat”), Finnish turve (“turf”), Lithuanian darbas (“bunch of leaves”), durpės (“peat”), Sanskrit दर्भ (darbhá, “a type of grass”), दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “bent grass”).
5. Not cognate with Danish torv (“square, market, marketplace”), which is instead inherited from Old Norse torg (“marketplace”), from Old East Slavic търгъ (tŭrgŭ, “trade, trading, commerce, trade square”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *tъ̑rgъ (“merchandise, commodity, wares”).
Sample Sentences
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Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
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The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.
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He has the mistaken idea that he is a lap dog, and loves to be nursed, especially by ladies, but eighty-five pounds on your lap is no joke, and he can never understand why he gets turfed off. [1968, Eric Herne, The Haunted Islands, page 18:]
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At the same time as College was being unceremoniously turfed from their premises, a similar process was affecting the Estcourt School. [1988, Simon Haw with Richard Frame, For Hearth and Home: The Story of Maritzburg College, 1863-1988, page 166:]
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"Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" […] They want to transfer responsibility for her to another branch of the hospital (turf her). [1996, Jeffrey E. Nash, James M. Calonico, The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology, page 139:]