Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to usure
Participle: usured
Gerund: usuring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | usure |
| you | usure |
| he;she;it | usures |
| we | usure |
| you | usure |
| they | usure |
Perfect
| I | have usured |
| you | have usured |
| he;she;it | has usured |
| we | have usured |
| you | have usured |
| they | have usured |
Past
| I | usured |
| you | usured |
| he;she;it | usured |
| we | usured |
| you | usured |
| they | usured |
Pluperfect
| I | had usured |
| you | had usured |
| he;she;it | had usured |
| we | had usured |
| you | had usured |
| they | had usured |
Future
| I | will usure |
| you | will usure |
| he;she;it | will usure |
| we | will usure |
| you | will usure |
| they | will usure |
Future Perfect
| I | will have usured |
| you | will have usured |
| he;she;it | will have usured |
| we | will have usured |
| you | will have usured |
| they | will have usured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | usure |
| you | usure |
| he;she;it | usure |
| we | usure |
| you | usure |
| they | usure |
Perfect
| I | have usured |
| you | have usured |
| he;she;it | have usured |
| we | have usured |
| you | have usured |
| they | have usured |
Imperfect
| I | usured |
| you | usured |
| he;she;it | usured |
| we | usured |
| you | usured |
| they | usured |
Pluperfect
| I | had usured |
| you | had usured |
| he;she;it | had usured |
| we | had usured |
| you | had usured |
| they | had usured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would usure |
| you | would usure |
| he;she;it | would usure |
| we | would usure |
| you | would usure |
| they | would usure |
Perfect
| I | would have usured |
| you | would have usured |
| he;she;it | would have usured |
| we | would have usured |
| you | would have usured |
| they | would have usured |
Imperative
| you | usure |
| we | Let's usure |
| you | usure |
Verbs conjugated like 'usure'
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 'usure'
usurp,
adure,
assure,
azure,
coure,
cure,
dure,
ensure,
enure,
fure,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. French user
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
5. Latin -(ā)tūram
6. Old French -(ë)ure
7. French -ure
8. French usurebor.
9. English usure
10. Borrowed from French usure.
Sample Sentences
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I turn no moneys in the public bank; Nor usure private. [1605, Ben Johson, Volpone, or The Fox:]
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Neither do we approve the policy of the other sections of the bill referred to us, which proposes to declare utterly void all interests by which any usurious or illegal rate of interest is usured or taken, and under which a party may, as has been elsewhere done, tempt a neighbor by an offer of a high rate of interest to loan him money, and then under the cover of this law, turn around and cheat him out of the whole of it. [1861 January 28, Thos. W. Lockwood, “A bill to regulate the interest on money loaned, and other contracts and liabilities”, in Journal of the Michigan Legislature House of Representatives, page 246:]
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Similarly, he must make restitution to those from whom he has stolen or robbed before those he has usured. [2016, Lawrin Armstrong, The Idea of a Moral Economy, page 20:]
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Before him lay the Groan debtor's prison, a stark gray block against the iron sky. Within its sheer walls were the mad, the indebted, those usured into servitude. [2017, Michael John Grist, The Saint's Rise:]
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The maternal tongue is irrevocably supplanted by a usured tongue, the language of the truck driver and of the maid in Andalusia. [2006, Stefania Lucamante, Sharon Wood, Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante, page 174:]
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Now, however, preaching cannot help anymore. They have usured themselves deaf, blind, and senseless, and they hear, see, and feel nothing more. [2007, Philip D. Krey, Peter D. S. Krey, Luther's Spirituality, page 42:]
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This dialectic of "blindness and insight" (and if this insight of Paul de Man has been used up, usured too many times to have kept its luster, what other relation to blindness is concealed in the place of its cliché?) continues to structure our stories that unfold at the site / sight of blindness in the heart of the other's vision: Plato's sighting that of the cave-dwellers,' Derrida's exposing Plato's. [2011, Zsuzsa Baross, Posthumously: For Jacques Derrida, page 73:]