Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to couple
Participle: coupled
Gerund: coupling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | couple |
| you | couple |
| he;she;it | couples |
| we | couple |
| you | couple |
| they | couple |
Perfect
| I | have coupled |
| you | have coupled |
| he;she;it | has coupled |
| we | have coupled |
| you | have coupled |
| they | have coupled |
Past
| I | coupled |
| you | coupled |
| he;she;it | coupled |
| we | coupled |
| you | coupled |
| they | coupled |
Pluperfect
| I | had coupled |
| you | had coupled |
| he;she;it | had coupled |
| we | had coupled |
| you | had coupled |
| they | had coupled |
Future
| I | will couple |
| you | will couple |
| he;she;it | will couple |
| we | will couple |
| you | will couple |
| they | will couple |
Future Perfect
| I | will have coupled |
| you | will have coupled |
| he;she;it | will have coupled |
| we | will have coupled |
| you | will have coupled |
| they | will have coupled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | couple |
| you | couple |
| he;she;it | couple |
| we | couple |
| you | couple |
| they | couple |
Perfect
| I | have coupled |
| you | have coupled |
| he;she;it | have coupled |
| we | have coupled |
| you | have coupled |
| they | have coupled |
Imperfect
| I | coupled |
| you | coupled |
| he;she;it | coupled |
| we | coupled |
| you | coupled |
| they | coupled |
Pluperfect
| I | had coupled |
| you | had coupled |
| he;she;it | had coupled |
| we | had coupled |
| you | had coupled |
| they | had coupled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would couple |
| you | would couple |
| he;she;it | would couple |
| we | would couple |
| you | would couple |
| they | would couple |
Perfect
| I | would have coupled |
| you | would have coupled |
| he;she;it | would have coupled |
| we | would have coupled |
| you | would have coupled |
| they | would have coupled |
Imperative
| you | couple |
| we | Let's couple |
| you | couple |
Verbs conjugated like 'couple'
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 'couple'
accouple,
boule,
cample,
caudle,
chupse,
cobble,
cockle,
coddle,
codle,
coffle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to combine more than one item into one
- accouple, affix, associate, attach, bewed, bind, clasp, clinch, combine, conglomerate, conglutinate, conjoin, connect, entwine, fay, fix, graft, hitch, hook, inosculate, interlink, join, joint, knit, knot, link, marry, put together, splice, unite, wed, yoke
- to engage in sexual intercourse
- bang, bauf, beat, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, dance, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frig, fuck, get busy, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, make it, make love, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, play, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, stick, tumble, wango tango
- to join together
- conjoin, join
- to join in wedlock
- marry
- to join in sexual intercourse
- copulate
- to take as one's spouse
- bewed, conjoin, espouse, handfast, hitch, join, marry, splice, wed
- join
- yoke, associate, conjoin, connect, fasten, link, pair
Antonyms
- join
- disjoin, separate, sever, disconnect
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1280, from O.Fr.
cople "married couple, lovers," from L.
copula "tie, connection," from PIE
*ko-ap-, from
*ko(m)- "together" +
*ap- "to take, reach." Meaning broadened 14c. to "any two things." The verb is from c.1340. Poetic
couplet, a dim. form, first attested 1580.
2. From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula.
Verbs referencing "couple"
Manx
cubbyl.
Sample Sentences
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[...] with her, were very, very limited; and that the moral effects of her wretched state soon began to appear. Those who cannot be enlightened by reason, can only be controlled by force; and this, coupled with her great privations, must soon have reduced her to a worse condition than that of the beasts that perish, but for timely and unhoped-for aid.
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[...] in silent fellowship round the stove, when the meal is over. Every man sits down, dull and languid; swallows his fare as if breakfasts, dinners, and suppers, were necessities of nature never to be coupled with recreation or enjoyment; and having bolted his food in a gloomy silence, bolts himself, in the same state. But for these animal observances, you might suppose the whole male portion of the [...]
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