Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to form
Participle: formed
Gerund: forming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | form |
| you | form |
| he;she;it | forms |
| we | form |
| you | form |
| they | form |
Perfect
| I | have formed |
| you | have formed |
| he;she;it | has formed |
| we | have formed |
| you | have formed |
| they | have formed |
Past
| I | formed |
| you | formed |
| he;she;it | formed |
| we | formed |
| you | formed |
| they | formed |
Pluperfect
| I | had formed |
| you | had formed |
| he;she;it | had formed |
| we | had formed |
| you | had formed |
| they | had formed |
Future
| I | will form |
| you | will form |
| he;she;it | will form |
| we | will form |
| you | will form |
| they | will form |
Future Perfect
| I | will have formed |
| you | will have formed |
| he;she;it | will have formed |
| we | will have formed |
| you | will have formed |
| they | will have formed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | form |
| you | form |
| he;she;it | form |
| we | form |
| you | form |
| they | form |
Perfect
| I | have formed |
| you | have formed |
| he;she;it | have formed |
| we | have formed |
| you | have formed |
| they | have formed |
Imperfect
| I | formed |
| you | formed |
| he;she;it | formed |
| we | formed |
| you | formed |
| they | formed |
Pluperfect
| I | had formed |
| you | had formed |
| he;she;it | had formed |
| we | had formed |
| you | had formed |
| they | had formed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would form |
| you | would form |
| he;she;it | would form |
| we | would form |
| you | would form |
| they | would form |
Perfect
| I | would have formed |
| you | would have formed |
| he;she;it | would have formed |
| we | would have formed |
| you | would have formed |
| they | would have formed |
Imperative
| you | form |
| we | Let's form |
| you | form |
Verbs conjugated like 'form'
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 'form'
borm,
dorm,
farm,
firm,
foam,
foom,
ford,
fork,
fort,
gorm,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- take shape
- come into being
- constitute
- compose
- to construct
- artifice, betimber, build, build up, compile, construct, edify, erect, extruct, fabricate, fashion, make, manufacture, produce, put together, put up, rear, timber, upbuild
- to give something a shape and definition
- beshape, shape, transmogrify, turn
- To change the shape of.
- forshape
- To form into a particular shape.
- mold
- to make up the whole
- compose, compound, comprise, constitute, make up, represent, upmake
Antonyms
- To bring something out of shape.
- deform
- To change the form of, negatively.
- distort
- To change the appearance of something to the negative.
- disfigure
- To put out of shape.
- forshape
- To shape badly or incorrectly.
- misshape
- To distort.
- wrest
- to give something a shape and definition
- buckle, twist, warp, writhe
- To twist
- contort
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”).
2. In sense "division grouping school students" (now dated), derived from public school nomenclature later adopted by state schools. It is sometimes said to be from the sense of "bench", where students of certain ages would sit together, though this is disputed, or alternatively from the sense of "established method of expression or practice".
Sample Sentences
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[...] and get an idea of its use, then teaches her how to spell it by making the signs for the letters with her own fingers: the child grasps her hand, and feels her fingers, as the different letters are formed; she turns her head a little on one side like a person listening closely; her lips are apart; she seems scarcely to breathe; and her countenance, at first anxious, gradually changes to a smile, as [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] steadily down, meantime, into the midst of the congregation. Thus, when he applied his text to the first assemblage of his hearers, and pictured the wonder of the church at their presumption in forming a congregation among themselves, he stopped short with his Bible under his arm in the manner I have described, and pursued his discourse after this manner:
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] hours a day, which is unquestionably work, and pretty tight work too. Perhaps it is above their station to indulge in such amusements, on any terms. Are we quite sure that we in England have not formed our ideas of the ‘station ’ of working people, from accustoming ourselves to the contemplation of that class as they are, and not as they might be ? I think that if we examine our own feelings, we [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] land bending far out into the water, the ice had been lodged and detained in great quantities, and the narrow channel which swept round the bend was full of ice, piled one cake over another, thus forming a temporary barrier to the descending ice, which lodged, and formed a great, undulating raft, filling up the whole river, and extending almost to the Kentucky shore.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] in great quantities, and the narrow channel which swept round the bend was full of ice, piled one cake over another, thus forming a temporary barrier to the descending ice, which lodged, and formed a great, undulating raft, filling up the whole river, and extending almost to the Kentucky shore.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] that we all kept the middle of the deck, lest the boat should unexpectedly tip over; and that the machinery, by some surprising process of condensation, worked between it and the keel: the whole forming a warm sandwich, about three feet thick.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] IN A WESTERN STEAMBOAT. CINCINNATI THE Messenger was one among a crowd of high-pressure steamboats, clustered together by a wharf-side, which, looked down upon from the rising ground that forms the landing-place, and backed by the lofty bank on the opposite side of the river, appeared no larger than so many floating models. She had some forty passengers on board, exclusive of the poorer [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] escape valve, and a glass steerage-house. Then, in order as the eye descends towards the water, are the sides, and doors, and windows of the state-rooms, jumbled as oddly together as though they formed a small street, built by the varying tastes of a dozen men: the whole is supported on beams and pillars resting on a dirty barge, but a few inches above the water 's edge: and in the narrow space [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] is inexpressibly refreshing and agreeable. I was quite charmed with the appearance of the town, and its adjoining suburb of Mount Auburn: from which the city, lying in an amphitheatre of hills, forms a picture of remarkable beauty, and is seen to great advantage.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I was particularly pleased to see the Irishmen, who formed a distinct society among themselves, and mustered very strong with their green scarves; carrying their national Harp and their Portrait of Father Mathew, high above the people 's heads. They looked [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)