Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rock
Participle: rocked
Gerund: rocking
Indicative
Present
| I | rock |
| you | rock |
| he;she;it | rocks |
| we | rock |
| you | rock |
| they | rock |
Perfect
| I | have rocked |
| you | have rocked |
| he;she;it | has rocked |
| we | have rocked |
| you | have rocked |
| they | have rocked |
Past
| I | rocked |
| you | rocked |
| he;she;it | rocked |
| we | rocked |
| you | rocked |
| they | rocked |
Pluperfect
| I | had rocked |
| you | had rocked |
| he;she;it | had rocked |
| we | had rocked |
| you | had rocked |
| they | had rocked |
Future
| I | will rock |
| you | will rock |
| he;she;it | will rock |
| we | will rock |
| you | will rock |
| they | will rock |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rocked |
| you | will have rocked |
| he;she;it | will have rocked |
| we | will have rocked |
| you | will have rocked |
| they | will have rocked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rock |
| you | rock |
| he;she;it | rock |
| we | rock |
| you | rock |
| they | rock |
Perfect
| I | have rocked |
| you | have rocked |
| he;she;it | have rocked |
| we | have rocked |
| you | have rocked |
| they | have rocked |
Imperfect
| I | rocked |
| you | rocked |
| he;she;it | rocked |
| we | rocked |
| you | rocked |
| they | rocked |
Pluperfect
| I | had rocked |
| you | had rocked |
| he;she;it | had rocked |
| we | had rocked |
| you | had rocked |
| they | had rocked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rock |
| you | would rock |
| he;she;it | would rock |
| we | would rock |
| you | would rock |
| they | would rock |
Perfect
| I | would have rocked |
| you | would have rocked |
| he;she;it | would have rocked |
| we | would have rocked |
| you | would have rocked |
| they | would have rocked |
Imperative
| you | rock |
| we | Let's rock |
| you | rock |
Verbs conjugated like 'rock'
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 'rock'
brock,
cock,
crock,
dock,
frock,
grock,
hock,
jock,
lock,
mock,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- have sex with
- diddle, hit, plough, plug, shelve, slay, copulate with
- move gently back and forth
- sway
- sway violently back and forth
- shake
- to [[move]], or [[swing]], backward and forward or from side to side
- sway, waver
Antonyms
- to be poor at
- rule, suck
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to dance to popular music with a strong beat," 1948 (first attested in song title "We're gonna rock"), from rock (v.1), in earlier blues slang sense of "to cause to move with musical rhythm" (1922); often used at first with sexual overtones (cf. 1922 song title "My Man Rocks Me (with One Steady Roll)"). Sense developed early 1950s to "play or dance to rock and roll music." Noun sense of "musical rhythm characterized by a strong beat" is from 1946, in blues slang.
Rocksteady, Jamaican pop music style (precursor of reggae), is attested from 1969.
2. Etymology tree
3. Medieval Latin roccabor.?
4. Old English *rocc
5. Early Medieval Latin rocca
6. Anglo-Norman roquebor.
7. Middle English rokke
8. English rock
9. Inherited from Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Modern French roc, roche, rocher), from Medieval Latin rocca (attested 767), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be of Celtic (in particular, perhaps Gaulish) origin (compare Breton roc'h). Related also to Middle Low German rocke (“rock ledge”). One suggestion is that it derives from Vulgar Latin *rupica, from rupes (compare rupico). See: Breton '
roc'h'.
Verbs referencing "rock"
Spanish
derrocar, Danish
rokke, German, old spelling
rücken, German, old spelling
rocken.
Sample Sentences
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[...] in a moment. St. Clare saw and felt many things, but spoke nothing; and, as it grew darker, he took his child to her bed-room; and, when she was prepared for rest; he sent away the attendants, and rocked her in his arms, and sung to her till she was asleep.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] man, familiar with every form of cruelty ? To answer this, we must carry the reader backward in his history. Hard and reprobate as the godless man seemed now, there had been a time when he had been rocked on the bosom of a mother,—cradled with prayers and pious hymns,—his now seared brow bedewed with the waters of holy baptism. In early childhood, a fair-haired woman had led him, at the sound of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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♪ Man they know how I 'm rockin ' ♪
(Rule of Thirds)