bait – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to bait
Participle: baited
Gerund: baiting

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	bait
we	Let's bait
you	bait

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to regurgitate the contents of a stomach

be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, cast up one's accounts, chunder, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, heave, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, puke, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, retch, sick up, spew, throw up, toss one's cookies, upchuck, vomit, yak

tease

badger, torment, nag, harass, heckle, anger, hector, hound

lure

entice, allure, attract, draw, decoy

Antonyms

lure

repel, repulse, disgust, revolt

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1300, from O.N. beita, from P.Gmc. *baitan (cf. O.H.G. beizzen "to bait"), causative of *bitan (see bite), which gave rise to the two modern meanings, of "harassment" and "food offered." The verb (1300) originally referred to the medieval custom of setting dogs on some ferocious animal to bite and worry it; the fig. sense of "to persecute or harass one unable to escape the torment" is recorded earlier (c.1200).
2. From Middle English bayte, bait, beite, from Old Norse beita (“food, bait”), from Proto-Germanic *baitō (“that which is bitten, bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to cleave, split, separate”). Cognate with German Beize (“mordant, corrosive fluid; marinade”), Old English bāt (“that which can be bitten, food, bait”). Related to bite.

Verbs referencing "bait"

Sranan beti, Spanish baitear.

Sample Sentences