Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unfurl
Participle: unfurled
Gerund: unfurling
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | unfurl |
| you | unfurl |
| he;she;it | unfurls |
| we | unfurl |
| you | unfurl |
| they | unfurl |
Perfect
| I | have unfurled |
| you | have unfurled |
| he;she;it | has unfurled |
| we | have unfurled |
| you | have unfurled |
| they | have unfurled |
Past
| I | unfurled |
| you | unfurled |
| he;she;it | unfurled |
| we | unfurled |
| you | unfurled |
| they | unfurled |
Pluperfect
| I | had unfurled |
| you | had unfurled |
| he;she;it | had unfurled |
| we | had unfurled |
| you | had unfurled |
| they | had unfurled |
Future
| I | will unfurl |
| you | will unfurl |
| he;she;it | will unfurl |
| we | will unfurl |
| you | will unfurl |
| they | will unfurl |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unfurled |
| you | will have unfurled |
| he;she;it | will have unfurled |
| we | will have unfurled |
| you | will have unfurled |
| they | will have unfurled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unfurl |
| you | unfurl |
| he;she;it | unfurl |
| we | unfurl |
| you | unfurl |
| they | unfurl |
Perfect
| I | have unfurled |
| you | have unfurled |
| he;she;it | have unfurled |
| we | have unfurled |
| you | have unfurled |
| they | have unfurled |
Imperfect
| I | unfurled |
| you | unfurled |
| he;she;it | unfurled |
| we | unfurled |
| you | unfurled |
| they | unfurled |
Pluperfect
| I | had unfurled |
| you | had unfurled |
| he;she;it | had unfurled |
| we | had unfurled |
| you | had unfurled |
| they | had unfurled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unfurl |
| you | would unfurl |
| he;she;it | would unfurl |
| we | would unfurl |
| you | would unfurl |
| they | would unfurl |
Perfect
| I | would have unfurled |
| you | would have unfurled |
| he;she;it | would have unfurled |
| we | would have unfurled |
| you | would have unfurled |
| they | would have unfurled |
Imperative
| you | unfurl |
| we | Let's unfurl |
| you | unfurl |
Verbs conjugated like 'unfurl'
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 'unfurl'
uncurl,
unfuel,
upfurl,
furl,
knurl,
nurl,
refurl,
unburn,
unbury,
uncurb,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder.
5. Proto-Germanic *anda-
6. Proto-West Germanic *anda-
7. Old English and-
8. Old English on-
9. Middle English on-
10. English un-
11. English furl
12. English unfurl
13. From un- + furl.
Sample Sentences
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They unfurled the flag at the start of the festival.
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BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, / Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’”
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“My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’”
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They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!”
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They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
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Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!” [1892, Joaquin Miller, Columbus]
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Release the line by pulling down and unfurl the jib by pulling on the two jibsheets. [(Can we date this quote?), “RS Quest Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 2:]
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When will we be unfurling the new feature?
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Befitting the gray-brown clothes, bagged eyes, and licorice hair of its figures, Memoir Of A Snail unfurls the spiraling tale of two orphans persevering on Australia’s fringes. [2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club:]