warp – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to warp
Participle: warped
Gerund: warping

Cognates

Indicative

Present

I	warp
you	warp
he;she;it	warps
we	warp
you	warp
they	warp

Perfect

I	have warped
you	have warped
he;she;it	has warped
we	have warped
you	have warped
they	have warped

Past

I	warped
you	warped
he;she;it	warped
we	warped
you	warped
they	warped

Pluperfect

I	had warped
you	had warped
he;she;it	had warped
we	had warped
you	had warped
they	had warped

Future

I	will warp
you	will warp
he;she;it	will warp
we	will warp
you	will warp
they	will warp

Future Perfect

I	will have warped
you	will have warped
he;she;it	will have warped
we	will have warped
you	will have warped
they	will have warped

Subjunctive

Present

I	warp
you	warp
he;she;it	warp
we	warp
you	warp
they	warp

Perfect

I	have warped
you	have warped
he;she;it	have warped
we	have warped
you	have warped
they	have warped

Imperfect

I	warped
you	warped
he;she;it	warped
we	warped
you	warped
they	warped

Pluperfect

I	had warped
you	had warped
he;she;it	had warped
we	had warped
you	had warped
they	had warped

Conditional

Present

I	would warp
you	would warp
he;she;it	would warp
we	would warp
you	would warp
they	would warp

Perfect

I	would have warped
you	would have warped
he;she;it	would have warped
we	would have warped
you	would have warped
they	would have warped

Imperative

you	warp
we	Let's warp
you	warp

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

I	am warping
you	are warping
he;she;it	is warping
we	are warping
you	are warping
they	are warping

Perfect

I	have been warping
you	have been warping
he;she;it	has been warping
we	have been warping
you	have been warping
they	have been warping

Past

I	was warping
you	were warping
he;she;it	was warping
we	were warping
you	were warping
they	were warping

Pluperfect

I	had been warping
you	had been warping
he;she;it	had been warping
we	had been warping
you	had been warping
they	had been warping

Future

I	will be warping
you	will be warping
he;she;it	will be warping
we	will be warping
you	will be warping
they	will be warping

Future Perfect

I	will have been warping
you	will have been warping
he;she;it	will have been warping
we	will have been warping
you	will have been warping
they	will have been warping

Conditional

Present

I	would be warping
you	would be warping
he;she;it	would be warping
we	would be warping
you	would be warping
they	would be warping

Perfect

I	would have been warping
you	would have been warping
he;she;it	would have been warping
we	would have been warping
you	would have been warping
they	would have been warping

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'warp'

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 'warp'

carp, harp, jarp, larp, parp, tarp, wap, war, ward, ware,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

twist: distort, bend, contort, turn, spring
distort: pervert, bias, deviate, swerve

Antonyms

to give something a shape and definition: buckle, form, twist, writhe
twist: unwind, straighten, disentangle, separate

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "to bend, twist, distort," O.E. weorpan "to throw, throw away, hit with a missile," from P.Gmc. *werpanan "to fling by turning the arm" (cf. O.S. werpan, O.N. verpa "to throw," Swed. värpa "to lay eggs," O.Fris. werpa, M.L.G., Du. werpen, Ger. werfen, Goth. wairpan "to throw"), from PIE *werb- "to turn, bend" (cf. L. verber "whip, rod;" Gk. rhabdos "rod," rhombos "magic wheel"), from base *wer- "to turn, bend" (see versus). Connection between "turning" and "throwing" is perhaps in the notion of rotating the arm in the act of throwing; cf. Serbo-Cr. obratiti, O.C.S. vreshti "to throw." The meaning "twist out of shape" is first recorded c.1400; intransitive sense is from 1440.
2. From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw”), from Proto-West Germanic *werpan, from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“to throw, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
3. Cognate with Scots warp (“to throw, warp”), North Frisian werpen (“to throw”), Dutch werpen (“to throw, cast”), German werfen (“to throw, cast”), Icelandic verpa (“to throw”). See: Middle English 'werpen', Old English 'weorpan', Proto-Germanic '*werpaną', Dutch 'werpen', German, old spelling 'werfen', Icelandic 'verpa'.

Verbs referencing "warp"

German, old spelling werfen, Thai วาร์ป, Danish verfe, Danish værpe.

Sample Sentences

The moisture warped the board badly.
to warp space and time
The trauma had permanently warped her mind.
The planks looked warped. [1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC:]
Walter warped his mouth at this / To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. [1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
Over the years the post had warped and checked and needed to be replaced.
One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp. [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping. [1694, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises:]
Funny how the thought of huge profits can warp your judgment.
This firſt avovv'd; nor Folly vvarp'd my Mind, / Nor the frail Texture of the Female Kind / Betray'd my Vertue: […] [1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 138:]
I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. [1714 April 16, Joseph Addison, The Reader:]
We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. [1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society:]
If it persists much longer, this era of high joblessness will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults […] Ultimately, it is likely to warp our politics, our culture, and the character of our society for years. [2010 March 1, Don Peck, “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America”, in The Atlantic:]
It gives a pair of drunken bums direction, purpose and thriving small businesses but it destroys their friendship and warps their morals in the process. [2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in The A.V. Club:]
His perspective had warped after his extreme experiences.
There is our commission, / From which we would not have you warp. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
The usual method is to warp the yarn, either in whole or half hauls, […] [1830, William Burney, A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine:]
The next part of the process previous to tarring, is that of warping the yarns, or stretching them all to one length. [1852, Thomas Antisell, Hand-book of the Useful Arts: Including Agriculture, page 541:]
Warp the loom using your preferred method, following the draft in Figure 2 […] [2026, Malynda Allen, “Flights of Fancy”, in Handwoven, volume XLVII, number 1, page 44:]
whiles lie doth he mischief warp [1628, Thomas Sternhold, The Whole Book of Psalms:]
She acquainted the Greeks underhand with this treason, which was a warping against them. [1602, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, Moralia, page 409:]
though thou the waters warp [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:]
On came the sleet, and hail, and snow, in thorough good earnest; on came the bitter biting wind, which is not so unkind as man's ingratitude; on came the frost, which warps the waters, but whose bite is not so nigh as benefits forgot, [1860, Robert Barnabas Brough, The Welcome Guest, page 273:]
Warp—contract and shrivel (here by freezing; in III, iii, 75, by drought). In the Thesaurus Linguarum of George Hicken, D.D., the great Anglo-Saxon scholar, 1642-1715, the Saxon proverb 'Winter shall warp water' is quoted, showing that the meaning of this word here is 'weave into a firm texture.' Propertius uses the same simile: 'Africus, in glaciem frigore nectit aquas.'—Elegies, IV, iii. (The south-west wind warps the waters into ice by its chilness.) [1876, Shakespeare's Comedy of As You Like it, page 134:]
We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island.[…] [1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:]
At slack tide, the crew warped the ship into the lock that lowered the vessel down to river height, [2011, Derek Lundy, The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days:]
Having all our boats out with anchors and warps in them, which were presently run out, the ship warped into safety, where we dropt anchor for the night. [1777, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World:]
A good anchorage was found at Tanna, and the ship warped close in. [2009, Arthur Kitson, The Life of Captain James Cook, page 148:]
A pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. [1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
Thou know'st, with trumpet tongue, they'll speak, despite / Detracting foes, unnumbered as the tribes / Of horned locusts, warped on dusky winds, […] [1844, William Harper, Cain and Abel: a dramatic poem; and minor pieces, page 74:]
Pink cloudlets sail across the azure sky; The bees warp lazily on laden wing; […] [1884, John Addington Symonds, Vagabunduli Libellus, page 148:]
Many bees warped and spun about us, and some even alighted on Grandfather's bare head, or on his neck. He did not disturb them. [1941, Harper's Magazine, volume 184, page 421::]
Then we warp a ball of atmosphere right out of the sky into the domes, and some fruit trees to go with them, and we also abduct some livestock. [2004, Travis S. Taylor, Warp Speed, →ISBN:]
Valerie asked why they couldn't warp to the planet. [2012, Jonathan Henry, The Revelation of Earth: First Contact, page 188:]
They count a cow's warping her calf a month before her time not to be so bad as an ewe's losing her lamb. […] [A]n ewe that had warped her lamb very early might sometimes have another within the year[.] [1757, Edward Lisle, Observations in husbandry, volume 2, pages 113 and 200:]
Some cows are perhaps by constitutional weakness, or bodily imperfection, more liable to warp than others; […] [1807, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester, page 297:]
It was caused in the first instance by a single cow, which was purchased at a fair, and which cow warped, and it was only got rid of at last by changing the whole herd. [1846, The Gardeners' Chronicle, volume 6, page 346:]
Large fields are surrounded by embankments, dykes are cut, and sluice hates placed; when warping is in progress the gates all along the dykes to the tidal river, miles away, are opened. [1901 February 23, Yorkshire Weekly Post, quoted in English Dialect Dictionary:]
They warped all his bowels about on the tide. [1822, James Hogg, Poetical Works, volume 2, page 144:]
time and again / i write you of our love for Jarrell. / the wind warps me in your tree / Delmore […] [1969, Intro, issue 2, page 164:]

warp – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of warp

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'warp'

Verbs similar to 'warp'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Verbs referencing "warp"

Sample Sentences