Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ballast
Participle: ballasted
Gerund: ballasting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ballast |
| you | ballast |
| he;she;it | ballasts |
| we | ballast |
| you | ballast |
| they | ballast |
Perfect
| I | have ballasted |
| you | have ballasted |
| he;she;it | has ballasted |
| we | have ballasted |
| you | have ballasted |
| they | have ballasted |
Past
| I | ballasted |
| you | ballasted |
| he;she;it | ballasted |
| we | ballasted |
| you | ballasted |
| they | ballasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had ballasted |
| you | had ballasted |
| he;she;it | had ballasted |
| we | had ballasted |
| you | had ballasted |
| they | had ballasted |
Future
| I | will ballast |
| you | will ballast |
| he;she;it | will ballast |
| we | will ballast |
| you | will ballast |
| they | will ballast |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ballasted |
| you | will have ballasted |
| he;she;it | will have ballasted |
| we | will have ballasted |
| you | will have ballasted |
| they | will have ballasted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ballast |
| you | ballast |
| he;she;it | ballast |
| we | ballast |
| you | ballast |
| they | ballast |
Perfect
| I | have ballasted |
| you | have ballasted |
| he;she;it | have ballasted |
| we | have ballasted |
| you | have ballasted |
| they | have ballasted |
Imperfect
| I | ballasted |
| you | ballasted |
| he;she;it | ballasted |
| we | ballasted |
| you | ballasted |
| they | ballasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had ballasted |
| you | had ballasted |
| he;she;it | had ballasted |
| we | had ballasted |
| you | had ballasted |
| they | had ballasted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ballast |
| you | would ballast |
| he;she;it | would ballast |
| we | would ballast |
| you | would ballast |
| they | would ballast |
Perfect
| I | would have ballasted |
| you | would have ballasted |
| he;she;it | would have ballasted |
| we | would have ballasted |
| you | would have ballasted |
| they | would have ballasted |
Imperative
| you | ballast |
| we | Let's ballast |
| you | ballast |
Verbs conjugated like 'ballast'
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 'ballast'
ballad,
ballbust,
ballet,
ballot,
balls,
beblast,
blast,
deballast,
gallant,
unballast,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English bar (“bare”) + last (“load”).
Sample Sentences
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The task of a Railway Construction Company, R.E., is to lay and ballast the track; [...]. [1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:]
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Although the track is ballasted, it does not prevent clouds of reddish dust from the laterite soil blowing about when the train is in motion; after a journey with the windows open a bath is a necessity! [1948 September and October, W. S. Darby, “The Gold Coast Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 287:]
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The noosance was […] that to make the umbrella effective he would have to carry abroad such weight to ballast it as would put the whole contraption out of action for carrying abroad at all. [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 35:]