Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gride
Participle: grided
Gerund: griding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gride |
| you | gride |
| he;she;it | grides |
| we | gride |
| you | gride |
| they | gride |
Perfect
| I | have grided |
| you | have grided |
| he;she;it | has grided |
| we | have grided |
| you | have grided |
| they | have grided |
Past
| I | grided |
| you | grided |
| he;she;it | grided |
| we | grided |
| you | grided |
| they | grided |
Pluperfect
| I | had grided |
| you | had grided |
| he;she;it | had grided |
| we | had grided |
| you | had grided |
| they | had grided |
Future
| I | will gride |
| you | will gride |
| he;she;it | will gride |
| we | will gride |
| you | will gride |
| they | will gride |
Future Perfect
| I | will have grided |
| you | will have grided |
| he;she;it | will have grided |
| we | will have grided |
| you | will have grided |
| they | will have grided |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gride |
| you | gride |
| he;she;it | gride |
| we | gride |
| you | gride |
| they | gride |
Perfect
| I | have grided |
| you | have grided |
| he;she;it | have grided |
| we | have grided |
| you | have grided |
| they | have grided |
Imperfect
| I | grided |
| you | grided |
| he;she;it | grided |
| we | grided |
| you | grided |
| they | grided |
Pluperfect
| I | had grided |
| you | had grided |
| he;she;it | had grided |
| we | had grided |
| you | had grided |
| they | had grided |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gride |
| you | would gride |
| he;she;it | would gride |
| we | would gride |
| you | would gride |
| they | would gride |
Perfect
| I | would have grided |
| you | would have grided |
| he;she;it | would have grided |
| we | would have grided |
| you | would have grided |
| they | would have grided |
Imperative
| you | gride |
| we | Let's gride |
| you | gride |
Verbs conjugated like 'gride'
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 'gride'
bride,
glide,
gnide,
grade,
grice,
grid,
gridle,
grime,
gripe,
gryde,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to pierce or wound with a pointed tool or weapon
- chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, jab, job, juke, kebab, knifecrime, pigstick, pink, poach, run through, spear, speet, splash, stab, stick, stob, stog, thrust, yerk
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.
Sample Sentences
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Where feeling one cloſe couched by her ſide / She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 408:]
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So ſtoutly he withſtood their ſtrong aſſay, / Till that at laſt, when he aduantage ſpyde, / His poynant ſpeare he thruſt with puiſſant ſway / At proud Cymochles, whiles his ſhield was wyde, / That through his thigh the mortall ſteele did gryde[…] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, pages 300-301:]
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Fiercely flies
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The blast of North and East, and ice
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Makes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves,
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And bristles all the brakes and thorns
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To yon hard crescent, as she hangs
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Above the wood which grides and clangs
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Its leafless ribs and iron horns
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Together, in the drifts that pass
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To darken on the rolling brine
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That breaks the coast. [1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 108:]