Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cap
Participle: capped
Gerund: capping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cap |
| you | cap |
| he;she;it | caps |
| we | cap |
| you | cap |
| they | cap |
Perfect
| I | have capped |
| you | have capped |
| he;she;it | has capped |
| we | have capped |
| you | have capped |
| they | have capped |
Past
| I | capped |
| you | capped |
| he;she;it | capped |
| we | capped |
| you | capped |
| they | capped |
Pluperfect
| I | had capped |
| you | had capped |
| he;she;it | had capped |
| we | had capped |
| you | had capped |
| they | had capped |
Future
| I | will cap |
| you | will cap |
| he;she;it | will cap |
| we | will cap |
| you | will cap |
| they | will cap |
Future Perfect
| I | will have capped |
| you | will have capped |
| he;she;it | will have capped |
| we | will have capped |
| you | will have capped |
| they | will have capped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cap |
| you | cap |
| he;she;it | cap |
| we | cap |
| you | cap |
| they | cap |
Perfect
| I | have capped |
| you | have capped |
| he;she;it | have capped |
| we | have capped |
| you | have capped |
| they | have capped |
Imperfect
| I | capped |
| you | capped |
| he;she;it | capped |
| we | capped |
| you | capped |
| they | capped |
Pluperfect
| I | had capped |
| you | had capped |
| he;she;it | had capped |
| we | had capped |
| you | had capped |
| they | had capped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cap |
| you | would cap |
| he;she;it | would cap |
| we | would cap |
| you | would cap |
| they | would cap |
Perfect
| I | would have capped |
| you | would have capped |
| he;she;it | would have capped |
| we | would have capped |
| you | would have capped |
| they | would have capped |
Imperative
| you | cap |
| we | Let's cap |
| you | cap |
Verbs conjugated like 'cap'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cap'
bap,
cab,
cam,
camp,
can,
cape,
carp,
cat,
caw,
chap,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *kap-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
5. Proto-Indo-European *káput
6. Proto-Italic *kaput
7. Latin caput
8. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
9. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
10. Proto-Italic *-elos
11. Latin -ulum
12. Latin capitulum
13. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
14. Proto-Indo-European *-is
15. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
16. Proto-Italic *-ālis
17. Latin -ālis
18. Latin -āris
19. Latin -āre
20. Latin capitulāre?
21. Late Latin cappabor.
22. Proto-West Germanic *kappā
23. Proto-West Germanic *kappijā
24. Old English cæppe
25. Middle English cappe
26. English cap
27. Inherited from Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Proto-West Germanic *kappā (“covering, hood, mantle”), from Late Latin cappa, itself from Latin caput. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.
Sample Sentences
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to cap wages
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It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity. [2023 September 6, Philip Haigh, “£30 billion plan to transform the rail network in Ireland”, in RAIL, number 991, page 25:]
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That really capped my day.
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Ms. Yaccarino’s exit caps a tumultuous period at X, which was previously called Twitter and has been remade in Mr. Musk’s image since he bought the platform for $44 billion in 2022. [2025 July 9, Mike Isaac, Kate Conger, “X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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If he don’t get outta my hood, I’m gonna cap his ass.
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In a school shooting, where some kid caps a bunch of other kids, where did he get the weapon? From a family member, probably their gun cabinet.
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"How? Didn’t I cap for you, an’ square you with the examinin’ board? Didn’t I stake you to the three hundred dollars?" [1906, Alfred Henry Lewis, “Confessions of a Detective”, in Confessions of a Detective, New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, page 36:]
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It’s over for you capping-ass rappers—get out the game / You can fool the record labels, but not the streets, man [2003, Antwan Patton et al., “Tomb of the Boom”, in Speakerboxxx, performed by OutKast:]
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Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
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Tom never miſsed a lecture, and capped the proctor with the profoundeſt of bows. [1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “I Go to Cambridge, and Do But Little Good There”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume I, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 231:]
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Indeed, as the astonished small boys "capped" him on his way to nine o'clock "absence," he wore an expression of delight bordering on playfulness, which, coming from one of such firm and commanding features, was immensely striking. [1909, William Hill Tucker, Eton Memories, page 128:]
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As if one going to diſtrain upon his own Land or Tenement, where lawfully he may; yet if in doing thereof, he tranſgreſs the leaſt Point of the Common Law, he ſtraight committeth Felony. Or if one, by any other Occaſion, take any thing from another, as Boys uſe ſometimes to cap one another, the ſame is ſtraight Felony. [1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland as It Was in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Dublin: Laurence Flin, published 1763, page 50:]