Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to crop up
Participle: cropped up
Gerund: cropping up
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | crop up |
| you | crop up |
| he;she;it | crops up |
| we | crop up |
| you | crop up |
| they | crop up |
Perfect
| I | have cropped up |
| you | have cropped up |
| he;she;it | has cropped up |
| we | have cropped up |
| you | have cropped up |
| they | have cropped up |
Past
| I | cropped up |
| you | cropped up |
| he;she;it | cropped up |
| we | cropped up |
| you | cropped up |
| they | cropped up |
Pluperfect
| I | had cropped up |
| you | had cropped up |
| he;she;it | had cropped up |
| we | had cropped up |
| you | had cropped up |
| they | had cropped up |
Future
| I | will crop up |
| you | will crop up |
| he;she;it | will crop up |
| we | will crop up |
| you | will crop up |
| they | will crop up |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cropped up |
| you | will have cropped up |
| he;she;it | will have cropped up |
| we | will have cropped up |
| you | will have cropped up |
| they | will have cropped up |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | crop up |
| you | crop up |
| he;she;it | crop up |
| we | crop up |
| you | crop up |
| they | crop up |
Perfect
| I | have cropped up |
| you | have cropped up |
| he;she;it | have cropped up |
| we | have cropped up |
| you | have cropped up |
| they | have cropped up |
Imperfect
| I | cropped up |
| you | cropped up |
| he;she;it | cropped up |
| we | cropped up |
| you | cropped up |
| they | cropped up |
Pluperfect
| I | had cropped up |
| you | had cropped up |
| he;she;it | had cropped up |
| we | had cropped up |
| you | had cropped up |
| they | had cropped up |
Conditional
Present
| I | would crop up |
| you | would crop up |
| he;she;it | would crop up |
| we | would crop up |
| you | would crop up |
| they | would crop up |
Perfect
| I | would have cropped up |
| you | would have cropped up |
| he;she;it | would have cropped up |
| we | would have cropped up |
| you | would have cropped up |
| they | would have cropped up |
Imperative
| you | crop up |
| we | Let's crop up |
| you | crop up |
Verbs conjugated like 'crop'
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 'crop'
chop,
clop,
coop,
cop,
crap,
croup,
crow,
drop,
prop,
blop,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." Meaning of "harvest product" is c.1300, probably through verb meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c.1213). The general meaning of "to cut off" is c.1420.
2. From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1. See: Middle English '
croppen', Dutch '
kroppen', Low Saxon 'kröppen', German, old spelling '
kröpfen', Icelandic '
kroppa'.
Verbs referencing "crop"
English
group, English
cramp, Icelandic
kroppa, Portuguese
cropar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] the wall and kicked the floor with his heel, as though he had Time 's head under his shoe, and were literally ‘ killing ’ him. A third, an oval-faced, bilious-looking man, with sleek black hair cropped close, and whiskers and beard shaved down to blue dots, who sucked the head of a thick stick, and from time to time took it out of his mouth, to see how it was getting on. A fourth did nothing but [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] yet unborn, no better than the beasts: that, in these very broad-brimmed hats and very sombre coats—in stiff-necked, solemn-visaged piety, in short, no matter what its garb, whether it have cropped hair as in a Shaker village, or long nails as in a Hindoo temple—I recognise the worst among the enemies of Heaven and Earth, who turn the water at the marriage feasts of this poor world, not into [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] to her, only scanning, with a keen and furtive glance of her flickering eyes, the ornaments which Jane wore in her ears. When arrayed at last in a suit of decent and whole clothing, her hair cropped short to her head, Miss Ophelia, with some satisfaction, said she looked more Christian-like than she did, and in her own mind began to mature some plans for her instruction.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)