Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lounge
Participle: lounged
Gerund: lounging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lounge |
| you | lounge |
| he;she;it | lounges |
| we | lounge |
| you | lounge |
| they | lounge |
Perfect
| I | have lounged |
| you | have lounged |
| he;she;it | has lounged |
| we | have lounged |
| you | have lounged |
| they | have lounged |
Past
| I | lounged |
| you | lounged |
| he;she;it | lounged |
| we | lounged |
| you | lounged |
| they | lounged |
Pluperfect
| I | had lounged |
| you | had lounged |
| he;she;it | had lounged |
| we | had lounged |
| you | had lounged |
| they | had lounged |
Future
| I | will lounge |
| you | will lounge |
| he;she;it | will lounge |
| we | will lounge |
| you | will lounge |
| they | will lounge |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lounged |
| you | will have lounged |
| he;she;it | will have lounged |
| we | will have lounged |
| you | will have lounged |
| they | will have lounged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lounge |
| you | lounge |
| he;she;it | lounge |
| we | lounge |
| you | lounge |
| they | lounge |
Perfect
| I | have lounged |
| you | have lounged |
| he;she;it | have lounged |
| we | have lounged |
| you | have lounged |
| they | have lounged |
Imperfect
| I | lounged |
| you | lounged |
| he;she;it | lounged |
| we | lounged |
| you | lounged |
| they | lounged |
Pluperfect
| I | had lounged |
| you | had lounged |
| he;she;it | had lounged |
| we | had lounged |
| you | had lounged |
| they | had lounged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lounge |
| you | would lounge |
| he;she;it | would lounge |
| we | would lounge |
| you | would lounge |
| they | would lounge |
Perfect
| I | would have lounged |
| you | would have lounged |
| he;she;it | would have lounged |
| we | would have lounged |
| you | would have lounged |
| they | would have lounged |
Imperative
| you | lounge |
| we | Let's lounge |
| you | lounge |
Verbs conjugated like 'lounge'
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 'lounge'
lunge,
blunge,
bouge,
bounce,
couage,
dounce,
emunge,
flounce,
fonge,
gouge,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1508, from Scot., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Fr.
s'allonger (paresseusement) "to lounge about, lie at full length," from O.Fr.
alongier "lengthen," from L.
longus "long." Another etymology traces it through obsolete
lungis (n.) "slow, lazy person" (c.1560), from M.Fr.
longis, a generic application of
Longinus, supposed to be the name of the centurion who pierced Christ's side with a spear in John xix.34. Popular etymology associated the name with
long (adj.). The noun in the sense of "comfortable drawing room" is first recorded 1881; in the sense of "couch on which one can lie at full length," 1830.
Lounge lizard is from 1912, originally in reference to men who hung around in tea rooms to flirt.
2. Origin uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from French s'allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”). See: French '
s'allonger', French '
longer', German, old spelling '
lungern'.
Sample Sentences
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CHAPTER V Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners Mr. and Mrs. Shelby had retired to their apartment for the night. He was lounging in a large easy-chair, looking over some letters that had come in the afternoon mail, and she was standing before her mirror, brushing out the complicated braids and curls in which Eliza had [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] out from the rest. And if it chanced to be a criminal trial, his eyes, in nine cases out of ten, would wander to the dock in search of the prisoner, in vain; for that gentleman would most likely be lounging among the most distinguished ornaments of the legal profession, whispering suggestions in his counsel 's ear, or making a toothpick out of an old quill with his penknife.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The bar is a large room with a stone floor, and there people stand and smoke, and lounge about, all the evening: dropping in and out as the humour takes them. There too the stranger is initiated into the mysteries of Gin-sling, Cock-tail, Sangaree, Mint Julep, Sherry-cobbler, Timber [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] other gentlemen (mostly with their hats on, and their hands in their pockets ) were doing very leisurely. Some of these had ladies with them, to whom they were showing the premises; others were lounging on the chairs and sofas; others, in a perfect state of exhaustion from listlessness, were yawning drearily. The greater portion of this assemblage were rather asserting their supremacy than doing [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Rising at five o’clock next morning, I took a walk about the village: none of the houses were strolling about to-day, but it was early for them yet, perhaps: and then amused myself by lounging in a kind of farm-yard behind the tavern, of which the leading features were, a strange jumble of rough sheds for stables; a rude colonnade, built as a cool place of summer resort; a deep well; a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Occasionally, when we stop to change, some two or three half-drunken loafers will come loitering out with their hands in their pockets, or will be seen kicking their heels in rocking-chairs, or lounging on the window-sill, or sitting on a rail within the colonnade: they have not often anything to say though, either to us or to each other, but sit there idly staring at the coach and horses. The [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)