Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to snowball
Participle: snowballed
Gerund: snowballing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | snowball |
| you | snowball |
| he;she;it | snowballs |
| we | snowball |
| you | snowball |
| they | snowball |
Perfect
| I | have snowballed |
| you | have snowballed |
| he;she;it | has snowballed |
| we | have snowballed |
| you | have snowballed |
| they | have snowballed |
Past
| I | snowballed |
| you | snowballed |
| he;she;it | snowballed |
| we | snowballed |
| you | snowballed |
| they | snowballed |
Pluperfect
| I | had snowballed |
| you | had snowballed |
| he;she;it | had snowballed |
| we | had snowballed |
| you | had snowballed |
| they | had snowballed |
Future
| I | will snowball |
| you | will snowball |
| he;she;it | will snowball |
| we | will snowball |
| you | will snowball |
| they | will snowball |
Future Perfect
| I | will have snowballed |
| you | will have snowballed |
| he;she;it | will have snowballed |
| we | will have snowballed |
| you | will have snowballed |
| they | will have snowballed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | snowball |
| you | snowball |
| he;she;it | snowball |
| we | snowball |
| you | snowball |
| they | snowball |
Perfect
| I | have snowballed |
| you | have snowballed |
| he;she;it | have snowballed |
| we | have snowballed |
| you | have snowballed |
| they | have snowballed |
Imperfect
| I | snowballed |
| you | snowballed |
| he;she;it | snowballed |
| we | snowballed |
| you | snowballed |
| they | snowballed |
Pluperfect
| I | had snowballed |
| you | had snowballed |
| he;she;it | had snowballed |
| we | had snowballed |
| you | had snowballed |
| they | had snowballed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would snowball |
| you | would snowball |
| he;she;it | would snowball |
| we | would snowball |
| you | would snowball |
| they | would snowball |
Perfect
| I | would have snowballed |
| you | would have snowballed |
| he;she;it | would have snowballed |
| we | would have snowballed |
| you | would have snowballed |
| they | would have snowballed |
Imperative
| you | snowball |
| we | Let's snowball |
| you | snowball |
Verbs conjugated like 'snowball'
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 'snowball'
slowball,
lowball,
enwall,
inwall,
lowbell,
moonball,
snowblade,
snowboard,
spitball,
unball,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow + ball. Cognate with Scots snawbaw, German Schneeball, Luxembourgish Schnéiball, Dutch sneeuwbal, Afrikaans sneeubal, Limburgish snieëbal, West Frisian sniebal, Saterland Frisian Sneebaal, Sneebal, Swedish snöboll, Elfdalian sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.
Sample Sentences
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The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
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There's a further knock-on effect from cancelling trains. It's not unusual for train crew diagrams to include a period 'on the cushions', travelling as a passenger to get staff from one train to the next. Cancel this train and it's likely the crew won't reach their next train, so this too is cancelled. Disruption snowballs and diagrams become harder to deliver. [2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4:]