Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to efflower
Participle: efflowered
Gerund: efflowering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | efflower |
| you | efflower |
| he;she;it | efflowers |
| we | efflower |
| you | efflower |
| they | efflower |
Perfect
| I | have efflowered |
| you | have efflowered |
| he;she;it | has efflowered |
| we | have efflowered |
| you | have efflowered |
| they | have efflowered |
Past
| I | efflowered |
| you | efflowered |
| he;she;it | efflowered |
| we | efflowered |
| you | efflowered |
| they | efflowered |
Pluperfect
| I | had efflowered |
| you | had efflowered |
| he;she;it | had efflowered |
| we | had efflowered |
| you | had efflowered |
| they | had efflowered |
Future
| I | will efflower |
| you | will efflower |
| he;she;it | will efflower |
| we | will efflower |
| you | will efflower |
| they | will efflower |
Future Perfect
| I | will have efflowered |
| you | will have efflowered |
| he;she;it | will have efflowered |
| we | will have efflowered |
| you | will have efflowered |
| they | will have efflowered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | efflower |
| you | efflower |
| he;she;it | efflower |
| we | efflower |
| you | efflower |
| they | efflower |
Perfect
| I | have efflowered |
| you | have efflowered |
| he;she;it | have efflowered |
| we | have efflowered |
| you | have efflowered |
| they | have efflowered |
Imperfect
| I | efflowered |
| you | efflowered |
| he;she;it | efflowered |
| we | efflowered |
| you | efflowered |
| they | efflowered |
Pluperfect
| I | had efflowered |
| you | had efflowered |
| he;she;it | had efflowered |
| we | had efflowered |
| you | had efflowered |
| they | had efflowered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would efflower |
| you | would efflower |
| he;she;it | would efflower |
| we | would efflower |
| you | would efflower |
| they | would efflower |
Perfect
| I | would have efflowered |
| you | would have efflowered |
| he;she;it | would have efflowered |
| we | would have efflowered |
| you | would have efflowered |
| they | would have efflowered |
Imperative
| you | efflower |
| we | Let's efflower |
| you | efflower |
Verbs conjugated like 'efflower'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'efflower'
enflower,
beflower,
deflower,
flower,
reflower,
unflower,
efflate,
embower,
empower,
endower,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from French effleurer. See: French '
effleurer'.
Sample Sentences
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Chamois or Shamoy leather.—The skins are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned as above described. They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon the convex horse-beam. [1864, Andrew Ure, “A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines”, in Leather, volume II:]
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In the pregnant bounds / Of delicatest breath, that but efflowers the ear / And lapses into nothingness[.] [1913, John Galen Howard, “From olive groves of academe”, in University of California Chronicle, page 101:]
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Chamois leather—The skin of the Alpine goat of that name, which has been “efflowered” or deprived of the epidermis. [1972, Sophia Frances Ann Caulfeild, Blanche C. Saward, Encyclopedia of Victorian Needlework: Dictionary of Needlework, page 64:]