Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to preamble
Participle: preambled
Gerund: preambling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | preamble |
| you | preamble |
| he;she;it | preambles |
| we | preamble |
| you | preamble |
| they | preamble |
Perfect
| I | have preambled |
| you | have preambled |
| he;she;it | has preambled |
| we | have preambled |
| you | have preambled |
| they | have preambled |
Past
| I | preambled |
| you | preambled |
| he;she;it | preambled |
| we | preambled |
| you | preambled |
| they | preambled |
Pluperfect
| I | had preambled |
| you | had preambled |
| he;she;it | had preambled |
| we | had preambled |
| you | had preambled |
| they | had preambled |
Future
| I | will preamble |
| you | will preamble |
| he;she;it | will preamble |
| we | will preamble |
| you | will preamble |
| they | will preamble |
Future Perfect
| I | will have preambled |
| you | will have preambled |
| he;she;it | will have preambled |
| we | will have preambled |
| you | will have preambled |
| they | will have preambled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | preamble |
| you | preamble |
| he;she;it | preamble |
| we | preamble |
| you | preamble |
| they | preamble |
Perfect
| I | have preambled |
| you | have preambled |
| he;she;it | have preambled |
| we | have preambled |
| you | have preambled |
| they | have preambled |
Imperfect
| I | preambled |
| you | preambled |
| he;she;it | preambled |
| we | preambled |
| you | preambled |
| they | preambled |
Pluperfect
| I | had preambled |
| you | had preambled |
| he;she;it | had preambled |
| we | had preambled |
| you | had preambled |
| they | had preambled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would preamble |
| you | would preamble |
| he;she;it | would preamble |
| we | would preamble |
| you | would preamble |
| they | would preamble |
Perfect
| I | would have preambled |
| you | would have preambled |
| he;she;it | would have preambled |
| we | would have preambled |
| you | would have preambled |
| they | would have preambled |
Imperative
| you | preamble |
| we | Let's preamble |
| you | preamble |
Verbs conjugated like 'preamble'
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 'preamble'
ramble,
remble,
tramble,
tremble,
amble,
brabble,
crabble,
crumble,
drabble,
drumble,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1386, from O.Fr. preambule (13c.), from M.L. preambulum, neut. adj. used as a noun, properly "preliminary," from L.L. præambulus "walking before," from L. præ- "before" + ambulare "to walk" (see amble).
2. From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambulō (“to walk before”).
Sample Sentences
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But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province. [1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775: Including the Journal of Captain Simeon Chaper, pages 312–313:]
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Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac. [1982, Frank Davey, Pomestaysyun, page 20:]
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So, what say we skip the preambling. Is it women? Money? Writer's block? [2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 473:]