wheedle – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of wheedle

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to wheedle
Participle: wheedled
Gerund: wheedling

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of wheedle

Indicative

Present

Iwheedle
youwheedle
he;she;itwheedles
wewheedle
youwheedle
theywheedle

Perfect

Ihave wheedled
youhave wheedled
he;she;ithas wheedled
wehave wheedled
youhave wheedled
theyhave wheedled

Past

Iwheedled
youwheedled
he;she;itwheedled
wewheedled
youwheedled
theywheedled

Pluperfect

Ihad wheedled
youhad wheedled
he;she;ithad wheedled
wehad wheedled
youhad wheedled
theyhad wheedled

Future

Iwill wheedle
youwill wheedle
he;she;itwill wheedle
wewill wheedle
youwill wheedle
theywill wheedle

Future Perfect

Iwill have wheedled
youwill have wheedled
he;she;itwill have wheedled
wewill have wheedled
youwill have wheedled
theywill have wheedled

Subjunctive

Present

Iwheedle
youwheedle
he;she;itwheedle
wewheedle
youwheedle
theywheedle

Perfect

Ihave wheedled
youhave wheedled
he;she;ithave wheedled
wehave wheedled
youhave wheedled
theyhave wheedled

Imperfect

Iwheedled
youwheedled
he;she;itwheedled
wewheedled
youwheedled
theywheedled

Pluperfect

Ihad wheedled
youhad wheedled
he;she;ithad wheedled
wehad wheedled
youhad wheedled
theyhad wheedled

Conditional

Present

Iwould wheedle
youwould wheedle
he;she;itwould wheedle
wewould wheedle
youwould wheedle
theywould wheedle

Perfect

Iwould have wheedled
youwould have wheedled
he;she;itwould have wheedled
wewould have wheedled
youwould have wheedled
theywould have wheedled

Imperative

youwheedle
weLet's wheedle
youwheedle

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam wheedling
youare wheedling
he;she;itis wheedling
weare wheedling
youare wheedling
theyare wheedling

Perfect

Ihave been wheedling
youhave been wheedling
he;she;ithas been wheedling
wehave been wheedling
youhave been wheedling
theyhave been wheedling

Past

Iwas wheedling
youwere wheedling
he;she;itwas wheedling
wewere wheedling
youwere wheedling
theywere wheedling

Pluperfect

Ihad been wheedling
youhad been wheedling
he;she;ithad been wheedling
wehad been wheedling
youhad been wheedling
theyhad been wheedling

Future

Iwill be wheedling
youwill be wheedling
he;she;itwill be wheedling
wewill be wheedling
youwill be wheedling
theywill be wheedling

Future Perfect

Iwill have been wheedling
youwill have been wheedling
he;she;itwill have been wheedling
wewill have been wheedling
youwill have been wheedling
theywill have been wheedling

Conditional

Present

Iwould be wheedling
youwould be wheedling
he;she;itwould be wheedling
wewould be wheedling
youwould be wheedling
theywould be wheedling

Perfect

Iwould have been wheedling
youwould have been wheedling
he;she;itwould have been wheedling
wewould have been wheedling
youwould have been wheedling
theywould have been wheedling

Other

Verbs similar to 'wheedle'

wheeple, heddle, needle, tweedle, wheel, wheeze, whemmle, beetle, breede, cheere,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

obtain from another
leech, scrounge, sponge
coax
entreat, plead, beg, beguile, cajole, inveigle, sweet-talk, charm

Antonyms

coax
deter, deride, reproach, taunt

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "to influence by flattery," 1661, perhaps connected with O.E. wædlian "to beg" (from wædl "poverty"), or borrowed by Eng. soldiers in the 17c. German wars from Ger. wedeln "wag the tail," hence "fawn, flatter" (cf. adulation).
2. Uncertain. Perhaps continuing Middle English wedlen (“to beg, ask for alms”), from Old English wǣdlian (“to be poor, be needy, be in want, beg”), from Proto-Germanic *wēþlōną (“to be in need”).
3. Alternatively , borrowed from German wedeln (“to wag one's tail”), from Middle High German wedelen, a byform of Middle High German wadelen (“to wander, waver, wave, whip, stroke, flutter”), from Old High German wādalōn (“to wander, roam, rove”). In this case, it may be a doublet of waddle, or an independently formed etymological equivalent.
4. The ⟨wh⟩ spelling (reflecting pronunciations with /ʍ/) is apparently unetymological. See: German, old spelling 'wedeln', Middle High German 'wedelen', Middle High German 'wadelen'.

Sample Sentences

  • I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
  • […]whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William. [1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:]
  • “Brother Peter,” he said, in a wheedling yet gravely official tone, “It’s nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts and the Manganese. The Almighty knows what I’ve got on my mind—” [1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):]
  • Anyhow, you can't wheedle him this time. He's as bent as I am. [a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:]
  • Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love. [1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 290:]
  • If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...] [1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xviii, page 51:]
  • She tore off my cap, scratched, kicked, and buffetted me, till she had exhausted her strength, declaring, as she rested her arm, ‘that I had wheedled her husband from her. [1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC:]
  • […]when their best resources were the flitches of bacon and measures of corn, out of which they wheedled poor serfs and bondsmen, in exchange for their prayers[…] [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:]