Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bask
Participle: basked
Gerund: basking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bask |
| you | bask |
| he;she;it | basks |
| we | bask |
| you | bask |
| they | bask |
Perfect
| I | have basked |
| you | have basked |
| he;she;it | has basked |
| we | have basked |
| you | have basked |
| they | have basked |
Past
| I | basked |
| you | basked |
| he;she;it | basked |
| we | basked |
| you | basked |
| they | basked |
Pluperfect
| I | had basked |
| you | had basked |
| he;she;it | had basked |
| we | had basked |
| you | had basked |
| they | had basked |
Future
| I | will bask |
| you | will bask |
| he;she;it | will bask |
| we | will bask |
| you | will bask |
| they | will bask |
Future Perfect
| I | will have basked |
| you | will have basked |
| he;she;it | will have basked |
| we | will have basked |
| you | will have basked |
| they | will have basked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bask |
| you | bask |
| he;she;it | bask |
| we | bask |
| you | bask |
| they | bask |
Perfect
| I | have basked |
| you | have basked |
| he;she;it | have basked |
| we | have basked |
| you | have basked |
| they | have basked |
Imperfect
| I | basked |
| you | basked |
| he;she;it | basked |
| we | basked |
| you | basked |
| they | basked |
Pluperfect
| I | had basked |
| you | had basked |
| he;she;it | had basked |
| we | had basked |
| you | had basked |
| they | had basked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bask |
| you | would bask |
| he;she;it | would bask |
| we | would bask |
| you | would bask |
| they | would bask |
Perfect
| I | would have basked |
| you | would have basked |
| he;she;it | would have basked |
| we | would have basked |
| you | would have basked |
| they | would have basked |
Imperative
| you | bask |
| we | Let's bask |
| you | bask |
Verbs conjugated like 'bask'
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 'bask'
ask,
back,
balk,
bank,
bark,
base,
bash,
bass,
busk,
cask,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1393,
basken "to wallow (in blood)," from O.N.
baðask reflex. of
baða "bathe" (see bathe). Modern meaning "soak up a flood of warmth" is apparently due to Shakespeare's use of the word in reference to sunshine in "As You Like It" (1600).
2. Inherited from Middle English basken, from Old Norse baðask (“to take a bath”, literally “to bathe oneself”), mediopassive form from underlying baða (“to bathe”) + sik (“oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *baþōną and *sek. Doublet of English bathe. See: Middle English '
basken', Middle English '
basken', Proto-Germanic '
*baþōną', English '
bathe'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] which the slaves live is called, I was not invited to enter into any of their huts. All I saw of them, was, that they were very crazy, wretched cabins, near to which groups of half-naked children basked in the sun, or wallowed on the dusty ground. But I believe that this gentleman is a considerate and excellent master, who inherited his fifty slaves, and is neither a buyer nor a seller of human [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] for this awful Institution was nothing but a little lazy, good-for-nothing front parlour, open to the street; wherein two or three figures (I presume the magistrate and his myrmidons ) were basking in the sunshine, the very effigies of languor and repose. It was a perfect picture of justice retired from business for want of customers; her sword and scales sold off; napping comfortably with [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)