Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cruise
Participle: cruised
Gerund: cruising
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cruise |
| you | cruise |
| he;she;it | cruises |
| we | cruise |
| you | cruise |
| they | cruise |
Perfect
| I | have cruised |
| you | have cruised |
| he;she;it | has cruised |
| we | have cruised |
| you | have cruised |
| they | have cruised |
Past
| I | cruised |
| you | cruised |
| he;she;it | cruised |
| we | cruised |
| you | cruised |
| they | cruised |
Pluperfect
| I | had cruised |
| you | had cruised |
| he;she;it | had cruised |
| we | had cruised |
| you | had cruised |
| they | had cruised |
Future
| I | will cruise |
| you | will cruise |
| he;she;it | will cruise |
| we | will cruise |
| you | will cruise |
| they | will cruise |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cruised |
| you | will have cruised |
| he;she;it | will have cruised |
| we | will have cruised |
| you | will have cruised |
| they | will have cruised |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cruise |
| you | cruise |
| he;she;it | cruise |
| we | cruise |
| you | cruise |
| they | cruise |
Perfect
| I | have cruised |
| you | have cruised |
| he;she;it | have cruised |
| we | have cruised |
| you | have cruised |
| they | have cruised |
Imperfect
| I | cruised |
| you | cruised |
| he;she;it | cruised |
| we | cruised |
| you | cruised |
| they | cruised |
Pluperfect
| I | had cruised |
| you | had cruised |
| he;she;it | had cruised |
| we | had cruised |
| you | had cruised |
| they | had cruised |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cruise |
| you | would cruise |
| he;she;it | would cruise |
| we | would cruise |
| you | would cruise |
| they | would cruise |
Perfect
| I | would have cruised |
| you | would have cruised |
| he;she;it | would have cruised |
| we | would have cruised |
| you | would have cruised |
| they | would have cruised |
Imperative
| you | cruise |
| we | Let's cruise |
| you | cruise |
Verbs conjugated like 'cruise'
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 'cruise'
bruise,
cruize,
aguise,
araise,
arise,
braise,
cause,
chupse,
chuse,
clumse,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1651, from Du.
kruisen "to cross, sail to and fro," from
kruis "cross," from L.
crux. In the naval sense,
cruiser is 1679; in 18c. commonly applied to privateers; of police cars, 1929.
2. Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux. See: Dutch '
kruisen'.
Verbs referencing "cruise"
French
cruiser, German, old spelling
kreuzen, Esperanto
krozi, Dutch
cruisen, Ido krozar.
Sample Sentences
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He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…]. [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
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1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
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Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him.
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I saw you cruise that white guy over there.
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The one with the wavy hair (yeah).
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I cruised him too, but I couldn't get through. [1986, Blackberri, “Beautiful Blackman”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 59:]
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We see him [Joseph Huff-Hannon] approach several sets of men to ak if they have "a minute to talk about climate change"; they dismiss him out of hand, clearly more interesting in playing volleyball and cruising—including cruising Huff-Hannon himself—than in listening to bad news. [2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 144:]
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Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
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blast and cruise