Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to drudge
Participle: drudged
Gerund: drudging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | drudge |
| you | drudge |
| he;she;it | drudges |
| we | drudge |
| you | drudge |
| they | drudge |
Perfect
| I | have drudged |
| you | have drudged |
| he;she;it | has drudged |
| we | have drudged |
| you | have drudged |
| they | have drudged |
Past
| I | drudged |
| you | drudged |
| he;she;it | drudged |
| we | drudged |
| you | drudged |
| they | drudged |
Pluperfect
| I | had drudged |
| you | had drudged |
| he;she;it | had drudged |
| we | had drudged |
| you | had drudged |
| they | had drudged |
Future
| I | will drudge |
| you | will drudge |
| he;she;it | will drudge |
| we | will drudge |
| you | will drudge |
| they | will drudge |
Future Perfect
| I | will have drudged |
| you | will have drudged |
| he;she;it | will have drudged |
| we | will have drudged |
| you | will have drudged |
| they | will have drudged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | drudge |
| you | drudge |
| he;she;it | drudge |
| we | drudge |
| you | drudge |
| they | drudge |
Perfect
| I | have drudged |
| you | have drudged |
| he;she;it | have drudged |
| we | have drudged |
| you | have drudged |
| they | have drudged |
Imperfect
| I | drudged |
| you | drudged |
| he;she;it | drudged |
| we | drudged |
| you | drudged |
| they | drudged |
Pluperfect
| I | had drudged |
| you | had drudged |
| he;she;it | had drudged |
| we | had drudged |
| you | had drudged |
| they | had drudged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would drudge |
| you | would drudge |
| he;she;it | would drudge |
| we | would drudge |
| you | would drudge |
| they | would drudge |
Perfect
| I | would have drudged |
| you | would have drudged |
| he;she;it | would have drudged |
| we | would have drudged |
| you | would have drudged |
| they | would have drudged |
Imperative
| you | drudge |
| we | Let's drudge |
| you | drudge |
Verbs conjugated like 'drudge'
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 'drudge'
dredge,
grudge,
trudge,
adjudge,
bludge,
bridge,
budge,
cludge,
crudle,
dodge,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1494, "one employed in mean, servile, or distasteful work," missing in O.E. and M.E., but apparently related to O.E.
dreogan "to work, suffer, endure." The verb is from 1548.
Drudgery is from 1550.
2. From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”). See: Middle English '
druggen'.
Sample Sentences
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Rise to our Toils and drudge away the day. [1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd:]
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He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. [1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:]