Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to furl
Participle: furled
Gerund: furling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | furl |
| you | furl |
| he;she;it | furls |
| we | furl |
| you | furl |
| they | furl |
Perfect
| I | have furled |
| you | have furled |
| he;she;it | has furled |
| we | have furled |
| you | have furled |
| they | have furled |
Past
| I | furled |
| you | furled |
| he;she;it | furled |
| we | furled |
| you | furled |
| they | furled |
Pluperfect
| I | had furled |
| you | had furled |
| he;she;it | had furled |
| we | had furled |
| you | had furled |
| they | had furled |
Future
| I | will furl |
| you | will furl |
| he;she;it | will furl |
| we | will furl |
| you | will furl |
| they | will furl |
Future Perfect
| I | will have furled |
| you | will have furled |
| he;she;it | will have furled |
| we | will have furled |
| you | will have furled |
| they | will have furled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | furl |
| you | furl |
| he;she;it | furl |
| we | furl |
| you | furl |
| they | furl |
Perfect
| I | have furled |
| you | have furled |
| he;she;it | have furled |
| we | have furled |
| you | have furled |
| they | have furled |
Imperfect
| I | furled |
| you | furled |
| he;she;it | furled |
| we | furled |
| you | furled |
| they | furled |
Pluperfect
| I | had furled |
| you | had furled |
| he;she;it | had furled |
| we | had furled |
| you | had furled |
| they | had furled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would furl |
| you | would furl |
| he;she;it | would furl |
| we | would furl |
| you | would furl |
| they | would furl |
Perfect
| I | would have furled |
| you | would have furled |
| he;she;it | would have furled |
| we | would have furled |
| you | would have furled |
| they | would have furled |
Imperative
| you | furl |
| we | Let's furl |
| you | furl |
Verbs conjugated like 'furl'
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 'furl'
burl,
curl,
farl,
fuel,
full,
fur,
fure,
gurl,
hurl,
nurl,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1556, possibly from M.Fr.
ferler "to furl," from O.Fr.
ferlier, perhaps from
fer "firm" (from L.
firmus; see firm (adj.)) +
-lier "to bind" (from L.
ligare).
2. Perhaps from Old French ferlier, modern French ferler. See: French '
ferler'.
Sample Sentences
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With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 14, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 71:]
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When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. [1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man:]
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"'Oh yes, that's all very well, but we haven't done with it yet,' said the lad, 'we shall have it worse directly,' and he ordered them to furl every rag but the mizen." [1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 191:]