Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to muster
Participle: mustered
Gerund: mustering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | muster |
| you | muster |
| he;she;it | musters |
| we | muster |
| you | muster |
| they | muster |
Perfect
| I | have mustered |
| you | have mustered |
| he;she;it | has mustered |
| we | have mustered |
| you | have mustered |
| they | have mustered |
Past
| I | mustered |
| you | mustered |
| he;she;it | mustered |
| we | mustered |
| you | mustered |
| they | mustered |
Pluperfect
| I | had mustered |
| you | had mustered |
| he;she;it | had mustered |
| we | had mustered |
| you | had mustered |
| they | had mustered |
Future
| I | will muster |
| you | will muster |
| he;she;it | will muster |
| we | will muster |
| you | will muster |
| they | will muster |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mustered |
| you | will have mustered |
| he;she;it | will have mustered |
| we | will have mustered |
| you | will have mustered |
| they | will have mustered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | muster |
| you | muster |
| he;she;it | muster |
| we | muster |
| you | muster |
| they | muster |
Perfect
| I | have mustered |
| you | have mustered |
| he;she;it | have mustered |
| we | have mustered |
| you | have mustered |
| they | have mustered |
Imperfect
| I | mustered |
| you | mustered |
| he;she;it | mustered |
| we | mustered |
| you | mustered |
| they | mustered |
Pluperfect
| I | had mustered |
| you | had mustered |
| he;she;it | had mustered |
| we | had mustered |
| you | had mustered |
| they | had mustered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would muster |
| you | would muster |
| he;she;it | would muster |
| we | would muster |
| you | would muster |
| they | would muster |
Perfect
| I | would have mustered |
| you | would have mustered |
| he;she;it | would have mustered |
| we | would have mustered |
| you | would have mustered |
| they | would have mustered |
Imperative
| you | muster |
| we | Let's muster |
| you | muster |
Verbs conjugated like 'muster'
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 'muster'
fuster,
luster,
master,
mister,
mutter,
ouster,
bluster,
butter,
cluster,
dister,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To collect, call or assemble together (especially troops).
- assemble
- gather
- assemble, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, marshal, summon
Antonyms
- gather
- distribute, disperse, disseminate, dispense
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1300, "to display, reveal, appear," from O.Fr.
mostrer (modern Fr.
montrer), from L.
monstrare "to show," from
monstrum "omen, sign" (see monster). Noun meaning "act of gathering troops" is c.1400. To
pass musters (1575) originally meant "to undergo military review without censure." To
muster out "gather to be discharged from military service" is 1834, Amer.Eng. To
muster up in the fig. and transf. sense of "gather, summon, marshal" is from 1628.
2. From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster. See: Middle French '
monstrer', Latin '
mōnstrō', French '
montrer', Italian '
mostrare', Spanish '
mostrar'.
Verbs referencing "muster"
Spanish
mostrar, Esperanto
montri, French
montrer.
Sample Sentences
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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 as jolly and good-humoured as ever; and, working [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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We got over the river in due course, and mustered again before a little wooden box on wheels, hove down all aslant in a morass, with ‘MERCHANT TAILOR ’ painted in very large letters over the door. Having settled the order of proceeding, and the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In due time we mustered once again before the merchant tailor 's, and having done so, crossed over to the city in the ferry-boat: passing, on the way, a spot called Bloody Island, the duelling-ground of St. Louis, and so [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] his hand away. “ Thee has no chance, unless I stop the bleeding. ” And Phineas busied himself with making some off-hand surgical arrangements with his own pocket-handkerchief, and such as could be mustered in the company.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] exasperated; but I told him that it was his own fault, and laid him any wager that I could break the man; and finally it was agreed that, if I caught him, I should have him to experiment on. So they mustered out a party of some six or seven, with guns and dogs, for the hunt. People, you know, can get up as much enthusiasm in hunting a man as a deer, if it is only customary; in fact, I got a little [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The fact was, that Tom's home-yearnings had become so strong that he had begged a sheet of writing-paper of Eva, and, mustering up all his small stock of literary attainment acquired by Mas’r George's instructions, he conceived the bold idea of writing a letter; and he was busy now, on his slate, getting out his first draft. [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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One morning, when the hands were mustered for the field, Tom noticed, with surprise, a new comer among them, whose appearance excited his attention. It was a woman, tall and slenderly formed, with remarkably delicate hands and feet, and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] door, and up into the garret, where I 've got a nice bed made up in one of the great boxes. We must stay in that garret a good while, for, I tell you, he will raise heaven and earth after us. He'll muster some of those old overseers on the other plantations, and have a great hunt; and they'll go over every inch of ground in that swamp. He makes it his boast that nobody ever got away from him. So let [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)