Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to verb
Participle: verbed
Gerund: verbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | verb |
| you | verb |
| he;she;it | verbs |
| we | verb |
| you | verb |
| they | verb |
Perfect
| I | have verbed |
| you | have verbed |
| he;she;it | has verbed |
| we | have verbed |
| you | have verbed |
| they | have verbed |
Past
| I | verbed |
| you | verbed |
| he;she;it | verbed |
| we | verbed |
| you | verbed |
| they | verbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had verbed |
| you | had verbed |
| he;she;it | had verbed |
| we | had verbed |
| you | had verbed |
| they | had verbed |
Future
| I | will verb |
| you | will verb |
| he;she;it | will verb |
| we | will verb |
| you | will verb |
| they | will verb |
Future Perfect
| I | will have verbed |
| you | will have verbed |
| he;she;it | will have verbed |
| we | will have verbed |
| you | will have verbed |
| they | will have verbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | verb |
| you | verb |
| he;she;it | verb |
| we | verb |
| you | verb |
| they | verb |
Perfect
| I | have verbed |
| you | have verbed |
| he;she;it | have verbed |
| we | have verbed |
| you | have verbed |
| they | have verbed |
Imperfect
| I | verbed |
| you | verbed |
| he;she;it | verbed |
| we | verbed |
| you | verbed |
| they | verbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had verbed |
| you | had verbed |
| he;she;it | had verbed |
| we | had verbed |
| you | had verbed |
| they | had verbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would verb |
| you | would verb |
| he;she;it | would verb |
| we | would verb |
| you | would verb |
| they | would verb |
Perfect
| I | would have verbed |
| you | would have verbed |
| he;she;it | would have verbed |
| we | would have verbed |
| you | would have verbed |
| they | would have verbed |
Imperative
| you | verb |
| we | Let's verb |
| you | verb |
Verbs conjugated like 'verb'
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 'verb'
kerb,
adverb,
arb,
aver,
avert,
barb,
bere,
berm,
berob,
cere,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
Sample Sentences
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Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... . [a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3]
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I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language. [1993 January 25, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:]
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Nouns should never be verbed. [1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LAT_EX, page 8:]
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In English, verbing nouns is okay [2005 October 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page 8:]
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Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed. [2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:]
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For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ... [1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series:]
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Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location. [1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology:]
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The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside. [1998, Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse:]