Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to penelopize
Participle: penelopized
Gerund: penelopizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | penelopize |
| you | penelopize |
| he;she;it | penelopizes |
| we | penelopize |
| you | penelopize |
| they | penelopize |
Perfect
| I | have penelopized |
| you | have penelopized |
| he;she;it | has penelopized |
| we | have penelopized |
| you | have penelopized |
| they | have penelopized |
Past
| I | penelopized |
| you | penelopized |
| he;she;it | penelopized |
| we | penelopized |
| you | penelopized |
| they | penelopized |
Pluperfect
| I | had penelopized |
| you | had penelopized |
| he;she;it | had penelopized |
| we | had penelopized |
| you | had penelopized |
| they | had penelopized |
Future
| I | will penelopize |
| you | will penelopize |
| he;she;it | will penelopize |
| we | will penelopize |
| you | will penelopize |
| they | will penelopize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have penelopized |
| you | will have penelopized |
| he;she;it | will have penelopized |
| we | will have penelopized |
| you | will have penelopized |
| they | will have penelopized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | penelopize |
| you | penelopize |
| he;she;it | penelopize |
| we | penelopize |
| you | penelopize |
| they | penelopize |
Perfect
| I | have penelopized |
| you | have penelopized |
| he;she;it | have penelopized |
| we | have penelopized |
| you | have penelopized |
| they | have penelopized |
Imperfect
| I | penelopized |
| you | penelopized |
| he;she;it | penelopized |
| we | penelopized |
| you | penelopized |
| they | penelopized |
Pluperfect
| I | had penelopized |
| you | had penelopized |
| he;she;it | had penelopized |
| we | had penelopized |
| you | had penelopized |
| they | had penelopized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would penelopize |
| you | would penelopize |
| he;she;it | would penelopize |
| we | would penelopize |
| you | would penelopize |
| they | would penelopize |
Perfect
| I | would have penelopized |
| you | would have penelopized |
| he;she;it | would have penelopized |
| we | would have penelopized |
| you | would have penelopized |
| they | would have penelopized |
Imperative
| you | penelopize |
| we | Let's penelopize |
| you | penelopize |
Verbs conjugated like 'penelopize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'penelopize'
penelopise,
Penelopize,
Penelopise,
defelonize,
genealogize,
panelize,
penalize,
penectomize,
analogize,
censorize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Penelope + -ize, from the account in Homer's Odyssey of Penelope, who stalled her many suitors while she wove a shroud which she unraveled nightly to prolong the process.
Sample Sentences
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Diplomacy was still drawing out its lengthened thread — still weaving its long and dilatory web — still Penelopizing — when the same McLeod, the boaster in Canada of his active share in this triple crime of midnight murder, arson, and robbery, crosses over to the American side and repeats, in the hearing of Americans, and on the spot which had been the scene of his exploit, the audacious boast of his participation in it. [1841, Thomas Hart Benton, "Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, on the Case of McLeod," p. 3 (Google preview)]
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However, there is nothing for it but to penelopize, pull to pieces, and stitch away again. [1879, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., chapter 9, in Memoir of John Lothrop Motley:]
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Yiota would not allow me to begin to discuss Yiannaras's Commentary with her until I had finished reading it. I was tempted to penelopize, to go back to the beginning and start again in order to postpone the moment of discussion. [2003, Roger Green, Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen, →ISBN, page 193:]