Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to barrel
Participle: barreled
Gerund: barreling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | barrel |
| you | barrel |
| he;she;it | barrels |
| we | barrel |
| you | barrel |
| they | barrel |
Perfect
| I | have barreled |
| you | have barreled |
| he;she;it | has barreled |
| we | have barreled |
| you | have barreled |
| they | have barreled |
Past
| I | barreled |
| you | barreled |
| he;she;it | barreled |
| we | barreled |
| you | barreled |
| they | barreled |
Pluperfect
| I | had barreled |
| you | had barreled |
| he;she;it | had barreled |
| we | had barreled |
| you | had barreled |
| they | had barreled |
Future
| I | will barrel |
| you | will barrel |
| he;she;it | will barrel |
| we | will barrel |
| you | will barrel |
| they | will barrel |
Future Perfect
| I | will have barreled |
| you | will have barreled |
| he;she;it | will have barreled |
| we | will have barreled |
| you | will have barreled |
| they | will have barreled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | barrel |
| you | barrel |
| he;she;it | barrel |
| we | barrel |
| you | barrel |
| they | barrel |
Perfect
| I | have barreled |
| you | have barreled |
| he;she;it | have barreled |
| we | have barreled |
| you | have barreled |
| they | have barreled |
Imperfect
| I | barreled |
| you | barreled |
| he;she;it | barreled |
| we | barreled |
| you | barreled |
| they | barreled |
Pluperfect
| I | had barreled |
| you | had barreled |
| he;she;it | had barreled |
| we | had barreled |
| you | had barreled |
| they | had barreled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would barrel |
| you | would barrel |
| he;she;it | would barrel |
| we | would barrel |
| you | would barrel |
| they | would barrel |
Perfect
| I | would have barreled |
| you | would have barreled |
| he;she;it | would have barreled |
| we | would have barreled |
| you | would have barreled |
| they | would have barreled |
Imperative
| you | barrel |
| we | Let's barrel |
| you | barrel |
Verbs conjugated like 'barrel'
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 'barrel'
arret,
bagel,
barber,
bare,
barge,
barken,
barney,
barrier,
barter,
battel,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.Fr. baril (12c.), with forms in all Romance languages, but origin uncertain; perhaps from Gaulish, perhaps somehow related to bar. Meaning "metal tube of a gun" is from 1648. The verb meaning "to move quickly" is 1930, Amer.Eng. slang, perhaps suggestive of a rolling barrel.
2. Etymology tree
3. Old French barilbor.
4. Middle English barel
5. English barrel
6. From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternative connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic *𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (*bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.
Sample Sentences
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He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
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Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds. [2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times:]
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Days before Trump’s inauguration, his envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, barrelled into Israel with a demand to meet Netanyahu on Shabbat in order to strongarm him into negotiating a ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza. [2025 June 22, Andrew Roth, “What a difference a week makes: Trump falls into the Netanyahu trap”, in The Guardian:]