Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wad
Participle: wadded
Gerund: wadding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | wad |
| you | wad |
| he;she;it | wads |
| we | wad |
| you | wad |
| they | wad |
Perfect
| I | have wadded |
| you | have wadded |
| he;she;it | has wadded |
| we | have wadded |
| you | have wadded |
| they | have wadded |
Past
| I | wadded |
| you | wadded |
| he;she;it | wadded |
| we | wadded |
| you | wadded |
| they | wadded |
Pluperfect
| I | had wadded |
| you | had wadded |
| he;she;it | had wadded |
| we | had wadded |
| you | had wadded |
| they | had wadded |
Future
| I | will wad |
| you | will wad |
| he;she;it | will wad |
| we | will wad |
| you | will wad |
| they | will wad |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wadded |
| you | will have wadded |
| he;she;it | will have wadded |
| we | will have wadded |
| you | will have wadded |
| they | will have wadded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wad |
| you | wad |
| he;she;it | wad |
| we | wad |
| you | wad |
| they | wad |
Perfect
| I | have wadded |
| you | have wadded |
| he;she;it | have wadded |
| we | have wadded |
| you | have wadded |
| they | have wadded |
Imperfect
| I | wadded |
| you | wadded |
| he;she;it | wadded |
| we | wadded |
| you | wadded |
| they | wadded |
Pluperfect
| I | had wadded |
| you | had wadded |
| he;she;it | had wadded |
| we | had wadded |
| you | had wadded |
| they | had wadded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wad |
| you | would wad |
| he;she;it | would wad |
| we | would wad |
| you | would wad |
| they | would wad |
Perfect
| I | would have wadded |
| you | would have wadded |
| he;she;it | would have wadded |
| we | would have wadded |
| you | would have wadded |
| they | would have wadded |
Imperative
| you | wad |
| we | Let's wad |
| you | wad |
Verbs conjugated like 'wad'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'wad'
bad,
dad,
gad,
mad,
pad,
wade,
wag,
wald,
wan,
wand,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- form into a ball
- ball
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal.
2. Cognate with Swedish vadd (“wadding, cotton wool”), German Wat, Watte (“wad, padding, cotton wool”), Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, watten (“cotton wool”), West Frisian waad, Old English wǣd (“garment, clothing”) (English: weed). More at weed, meal.
Sample Sentences
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She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
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[…] if you lay any fearnbrakes or other trash about them to entertain the moisture, and skreen it from the heat, let it not be wadded so close, or suffer’d to lie so long, as to contract any mustiness, but rather loose and easie, that the Air may have free intercourse, and to break the more intense ardours of the scorching Sun-beams. [1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, London: John Martyn, page 181:]
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She stood just inside the door, wadding a black-bordered hand-kerchief in her small gloved hands […] [1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 11, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122:]
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Mitch wadded the note, and tossed it over the cliff. [1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 10, column 1:]
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She wadded Marian into her chair, which was lumpy with garments in progressive stages of dirtiness, and tucked a towel around her neck. [1969, Margaret Atwood, chapter 25, in The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, published 1976, page 228:]
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to wad a gun
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to wad a cloak
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[…] upon his Body were several Flannel Wastcoats, a Cassock of thick Cloth, with a thick wadded Gown, and about his Shoulders the Quilt which he had taken from off the Bed. [1721, John Midriff, Observations on the Spleen and Vapours, London: J. Roberts, pages 7–8:]
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Could you believe it possible that through such a night as this they choose to sleep under those wadded cotton coverlets, and dread not instantaneous asphixiation? [1851, Richard Francis Burton, chapter 1, in Goa, and the Blue Mountains, London: Richard Bentley, page 11:]
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. [1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 2, Chapter 20:]