Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to infix
Participle: infixed
Gerund: infixing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | infix |
| you | infix |
| he;she;it | infixes |
| we | infix |
| you | infix |
| they | infix |
Perfect
| I | have infixed |
| you | have infixed |
| he;she;it | has infixed |
| we | have infixed |
| you | have infixed |
| they | have infixed |
Past
| I | infixed |
| you | infixed |
| he;she;it | infixed |
| we | infixed |
| you | infixed |
| they | infixed |
Pluperfect
| I | had infixed |
| you | had infixed |
| he;she;it | had infixed |
| we | had infixed |
| you | had infixed |
| they | had infixed |
Future
| I | will infix |
| you | will infix |
| he;she;it | will infix |
| we | will infix |
| you | will infix |
| they | will infix |
Future Perfect
| I | will have infixed |
| you | will have infixed |
| he;she;it | will have infixed |
| we | will have infixed |
| you | will have infixed |
| they | will have infixed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | infix |
| you | infix |
| he;she;it | infix |
| we | infix |
| you | infix |
| they | infix |
Perfect
| I | have infixed |
| you | have infixed |
| he;she;it | have infixed |
| we | have infixed |
| you | have infixed |
| they | have infixed |
Imperfect
| I | infixed |
| you | infixed |
| he;she;it | infixed |
| we | infixed |
| you | infixed |
| they | infixed |
Pluperfect
| I | had infixed |
| you | had infixed |
| he;she;it | had infixed |
| we | had infixed |
| you | had infixed |
| they | had infixed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would infix |
| you | would infix |
| he;she;it | would infix |
| we | would infix |
| you | would infix |
| they | would infix |
Perfect
| I | would have infixed |
| you | would have infixed |
| he;she;it | would have infixed |
| we | would have infixed |
| you | would have infixed |
| they | would have infixed |
Imperative
| you | infix |
| we | Let's infix |
| you | infix |
Verbs conjugated like 'infix'
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 'infix'
unfix,
affix,
confix,
defix,
fix,
immix,
inbox,
index,
infer,
infile,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigō (“to fasten in”).
Sample Sentences
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to infix a sting, spear, or dart
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[…] in her eye I find
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A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,
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The shadow of myself form’d in her eye:
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Which being but the shadow of your son,
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Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:
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I do protest I never loved myself
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Till now infixed I beheld myself
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Drawn in the flattering table of her eye. [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
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The fatal Dart a ready Passage found,
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And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:
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Consider that innumerable race of insects, which either are bred on the body of each animal, or flying about infix their stings in him. [1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, part 10, page 100:]
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Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 41, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]