Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to recycle
Participle: recycled
Gerund: recycling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | recycle |
| you | recycle |
| he;she;it | recycles |
| we | recycle |
| you | recycle |
| they | recycle |
Perfect
| I | have recycled |
| you | have recycled |
| he;she;it | has recycled |
| we | have recycled |
| you | have recycled |
| they | have recycled |
Past
| I | recycled |
| you | recycled |
| he;she;it | recycled |
| we | recycled |
| you | recycled |
| they | recycled |
Pluperfect
| I | had recycled |
| you | had recycled |
| he;she;it | had recycled |
| we | had recycled |
| you | had recycled |
| they | had recycled |
Future
| I | will recycle |
| you | will recycle |
| he;she;it | will recycle |
| we | will recycle |
| you | will recycle |
| they | will recycle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have recycled |
| you | will have recycled |
| he;she;it | will have recycled |
| we | will have recycled |
| you | will have recycled |
| they | will have recycled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | recycle |
| you | recycle |
| he;she;it | recycle |
| we | recycle |
| you | recycle |
| they | recycle |
Perfect
| I | have recycled |
| you | have recycled |
| he;she;it | have recycled |
| we | have recycled |
| you | have recycled |
| they | have recycled |
Imperfect
| I | recycled |
| you | recycled |
| he;she;it | recycled |
| we | recycled |
| you | recycled |
| they | recycled |
Pluperfect
| I | had recycled |
| you | had recycled |
| he;she;it | had recycled |
| we | had recycled |
| you | had recycled |
| they | had recycled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would recycle |
| you | would recycle |
| he;she;it | would recycle |
| we | would recycle |
| you | would recycle |
| they | would recycle |
Perfect
| I | would have recycled |
| you | would have recycled |
| he;she;it | would have recycled |
| we | would have recycled |
| you | would have recycled |
| they | would have recycled |
Imperative
| you | recycle |
| we | Let's recycle |
| you | recycle |
Verbs conjugated like 'recycle'
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 'recycle'
decycle,
ecycle,
precycle,
bicycle,
cycle,
freecycle,
recache,
recche,
recircle,
recoyle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Italic *wre-
3. Latin re-der.
4. Old French re-bor.
5. Middle English re-
6. English re-
7. Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
8. Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
9. Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
10. Late Latin cyclusbor.
11. Middle English cicle
12. English cycle
13. English recycle
14. From re- + cycle.
Verbs referencing "recycle"
French
recycler, German, old spelling
recyceln, Thai
รีไซเคิล, Dutch
recyclen, German, old spelling
recyclen.
Sample Sentences
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Both paper and plastic can be recycled.
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Recycling and reusing the material eliminates the need to import aggregate, a strategy which has avoided over 50,000 lorry movements on local roads. [2024 May 29, “Network News: HS2's Bromford Tunnel portal complete ready for TBM breakthrough...”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 14:]
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Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D. [2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in AV Club:]
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He [Huw Jones] was hauled down in England’s 22 but, when the ball was quickly recycled, [Finn] Russell’s miss-pass gave Sean Maitland the room to score in the left corner. [2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2018:]
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Now populists recycle communist verities: the fetishisation of working-class culture, the vision of a good “people” fighting a bad elite, the belief that the state should control business and the dismissal of parliamentary democracy as a bourgeois sham. [2025 September 13, Simon Kuper, “How Maga rewrote the Little Red Book”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:]
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Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes. [1990, Laurence Sombke, The Solution to Pollution: 101 Things You Can Do to Clean Up Your Environment, Sandy, Oregon: MasterMedia, p 22]
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Recycling is no longer a chore when this convenient recycling center is a fixture in your kitchen. [2003, The Complete Guide to Easy Woodworking Projects: 50 Projects You Can Build With Hand Power Tools, Minneapolis: Creative Publishing International, page 270:]
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You'll find many configurations, including models that hide behind a single cabinet door and conceal from one to three bins, so you can recycle at the same spot where you dispose of trash. [2006, Elaine Martin Petrowski, Design Ideas for Home Storage, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Creative Homeowner, page 133:]
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Who cares if you’re good-looking if you don’t recycle? Essentially, yes. Car-sharing, wearing patchwork clothes (signifying mending rather than throwing away) and carrying reusable coffee cups all came up as signs of environmentally virtuous behaviour. [2026 March 2, “The greenest flags: virtue signals that help you find love – from patchwork clothes to car sharing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.
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Recruits cannot fail this portion of their training and become a Marine. Anyone who fails may be “recycled” through training up to three more times to try again, but will be sent home if success in this program is not achieved. [2006, Barbara Schading, Richard Schading, A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military, page 102:]