Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to express
Participle: expressed
Gerund: expressing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | express |
| you | express |
| he;she;it | expresses |
| we | express |
| you | express |
| they | express |
Perfect
| I | have expressed |
| you | have expressed |
| he;she;it | has expressed |
| we | have expressed |
| you | have expressed |
| they | have expressed |
Past
| I | expressed |
| you | expressed |
| he;she;it | expressed |
| we | expressed |
| you | expressed |
| they | expressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had expressed |
| you | had expressed |
| he;she;it | had expressed |
| we | had expressed |
| you | had expressed |
| they | had expressed |
Future
| I | will express |
| you | will express |
| he;she;it | will express |
| we | will express |
| you | will express |
| they | will express |
Future Perfect
| I | will have expressed |
| you | will have expressed |
| he;she;it | will have expressed |
| we | will have expressed |
| you | will have expressed |
| they | will have expressed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | express |
| you | express |
| he;she;it | express |
| we | express |
| you | express |
| they | express |
Perfect
| I | have expressed |
| you | have expressed |
| he;she;it | have expressed |
| we | have expressed |
| you | have expressed |
| they | have expressed |
Imperfect
| I | expressed |
| you | expressed |
| he;she;it | expressed |
| we | expressed |
| you | expressed |
| they | expressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had expressed |
| you | had expressed |
| he;she;it | had expressed |
| we | had expressed |
| you | had expressed |
| they | had expressed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would express |
| you | would express |
| he;she;it | would express |
| we | would express |
| you | would express |
| they | would express |
Perfect
| I | would have expressed |
| you | would have expressed |
| he;she;it | would have expressed |
| we | would have expressed |
| you | would have expressed |
| they | would have expressed |
Imperative
| you | express |
| we | Let's express |
| you | express |
Verbs conjugated like 'express'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'express'
empress,
expresse,
adpress,
appress,
coexpress,
depress,
egress,
excess,
impress,
oppress,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- declare
- couch, assert, tell, air, phrase, asseverate, signify, give
- exhibit
- expose, indicate, manifest, represent, reveal, show
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1386, from M.L.
expressare, freq. of
exprimere "represent, describe," lit. "to press out" (perhaps via an intermediary sense of something like "clay that takes form under pressure"), from
ex- "out" +
pressare "to press, push," from L.
primere. The adj. is from L.
expressus "clearly presented," pp. of
exprimere; and it led to the n. (first attested 1619) meaning "special messenger." Sense of "business or system for sending money or parcels" is 1794. An
express train (1841) originally ran to a certain station.
Expressionist as an artist who seeks to portray the emotional effect of the subject is first recorded 1850;
expressionism in this sense is from 1908.
Expressway is 1945, from
express highway (1938).
2. From Old French espresser, expresser, from frequentative form of Latin exprimere.
Verbs referencing "express"
Ido expresar, Esperanto
esprimi.
Sample Sentences
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[...] that seemed to be created by the sudden and unexpected stoppage of the engine which had been clanking and blasting in our ears incessantly for so many days, to watch the look of blank astonishment expressed in every face: beginning with the officers, tracing it through all the passengers, and descending to the very stokers and furnacemen, who emerged from below, one by one, and clustered together in a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] expression which is never absent from their countenances, and the like of which we may readily detect in our own faces if we try to feel our way in the dark, every idea, as it rises within them, is expressed with the lightning 's speed and nature 's truth. If the company at a rout, or drawing-room at court, could only for one time be as unconscious of the eyes upon them as blind men and women are, what [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the help had come. Her face was radiant with intelligence and pleasure. Her hair, braided by her own hands, was bound about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline, and its broad open brow; her dress, arranged by herself, was a pattern of neatness and simplicity; the work she had knitted, lay beside her; her writing-book was on the desk [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] us in those visions of the night, so she, having no words, uses her finger alphabet in her sleep. And it has been ascertained that when her slumber is broken, and is much disturbed by dreams, she expresses her thoughts in an irregular and confused manner on her fingers: just as we should murmur and mutter them indistinctly, in the like circumstances.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I turned over the leaves of her Diary, and found it written in a fair legible square hand, and expressed in terms which were quite intelligible without any explanation. On my saying that I should like to see her write again, the teacher who sat beside her, bade her, in their language, sign her name [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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She had, until now, been quite unconscious of the presence of visitors; but, having her hand placed in that of the gentleman who accompanied me, she immediately expressed his name upon her teacher 's palm. Indeed her sense of touch is now so exquisite, that having been acquainted with a person once, she can recognise him or her after almost any interval. This [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] a part of the same Institution. Some are such little creatures, that the stairs are of Lilliputian measurement, fitted to their tiny strides. The same consideration for their years and weakness is expressed in their very seats, which are perfect curiosities, and look like articles of furniture for a pauper doll’s-house. I can imagine the glee of our Poor Law Commissioners at the notion of these seats [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] into sympathy; his thin, long nose, ran out as if it was eager to bore into the nature of things in general; his sleek, thin, black hair was stuck eagerly forward, and all his motions and evolutions expressed a dry, cautious acuteness. The great man poured out a big tumbler half full of raw spirits, and gulped it down without a word. The little man stood tiptoe, and putting his head first to one side and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] at Washington; meaning not their chiefs and leaders, but literally their individual and personal heads, whereon their hair grew, and whereby the phrenological character of each legislator was expressed: and I almost as often struck my questioner dumb with indignant consternation by answering ‘No, that I did n't remember being at all overcome. ’ As I must, at whatever hazard, repeat the avowal [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There was but a week to come, and another of that body, for doing his duty to those who sent him there; for claiming in a Republic the Liberty and Freedom of expressing their sentiments, and making known their prayer; would be tried, found guilty, and have strong censure passed upon him by the rest. His was a grave offence indeed; for years before, he had risen up [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Likely a hoax. No valuables? No, but a colleague expressed some concern. You know anything from missing ?
(Dead Mail)