Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cudgel
Participle: cudgeled; cudgelled
Gerund: cudgeling; cudgelling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cudgel |
| you | cudgel |
| he;she;it | cudgels |
| we | cudgel |
| you | cudgel |
| they | cudgel |
Perfect
| I | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| he;she;it | has cudgeled; cudgelled |
| we | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| they | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
Past
| I | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| he;she;it | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| we | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| they | cudgeled; cudgelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| he;she;it | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| we | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| they | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
Future
| I | will cudgel |
| you | will cudgel |
| he;she;it | will cudgel |
| we | will cudgel |
| you | will cudgel |
| they | will cudgel |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | will have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| he;she;it | will have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| we | will have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | will have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| they | will have cudgeled; cudgelled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cudgel |
| you | cudgel |
| he;she;it | cudgel |
| we | cudgel |
| you | cudgel |
| they | cudgel |
Perfect
| I | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| he;she;it | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| we | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| they | have cudgeled; cudgelled |
Imperfect
| I | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| he;she;it | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| we | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | cudgeled; cudgelled |
| they | cudgeled; cudgelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| he;she;it | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| we | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
| they | had cudgeled; cudgelled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cudgel |
| you | would cudgel |
| he;she;it | would cudgel |
| we | would cudgel |
| you | would cudgel |
| they | would cudgel |
Perfect
| I | would have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | would have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| he;she;it | would have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| we | would have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| you | would have cudgeled; cudgelled |
| they | would have cudgeled; cudgelled |
Imperative
| you | cudgel |
| we | Let's cudgel |
| you | cudgel |
Verbs conjugated like 'cudgel'
annul,
bevel,
cancel,
carol,
cavil,
channel,
chisel,
compel,
control,
counsel,
court-martial,
cudgel,
decontrol,
dial,
dispel,
dowel,
drivel,
duel,
empanel,
enamel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cudgel'
fudgel,
becudgel,
budge,
budget,
cadge,
cludge,
codge,
cupel,
fudge,
judge,
Additional Information
The forms with ortographic changes are used in British English, in American English the doubling of the consonant is usually omitted.
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
cycgel "club with rounded head;" not known in other Gmc. languages; perhaps from PIE base
*geu- "to curve, bend." The verb is from 1596.
2. From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“a knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“a stick with a rounded end”).
Verbs referencing "cudgel"
English
cog.
Sample Sentences
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The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
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I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
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Poets like Cudgel'd Bullys, never do / At firſt, or ſecond blow, ſubmit to you; / But will provoke you ſtill and ne're have done, / Till you are weary ſirst, with laying on: […] [1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, prologue:]
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Aboard the barge and so off the trail, the blessing lost its puissance and the barge-tender, who coveted Guyal's rich accoutrements, sought to cudgel him with a knoblolly. [1950, Jack Vance, “Mazirian the Magician”, in Dying Earth:]
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“Most remarkable,” murmured Tarzan, cudgeling his brain for some pretext upon which to turn the subject. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 102:]