Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cascade
Participle: cascaded
Gerund: cascading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cascade |
| you | cascade |
| he;she;it | cascades |
| we | cascade |
| you | cascade |
| they | cascade |
Perfect
| I | have cascaded |
| you | have cascaded |
| he;she;it | has cascaded |
| we | have cascaded |
| you | have cascaded |
| they | have cascaded |
Past
| I | cascaded |
| you | cascaded |
| he;she;it | cascaded |
| we | cascaded |
| you | cascaded |
| they | cascaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had cascaded |
| you | had cascaded |
| he;she;it | had cascaded |
| we | had cascaded |
| you | had cascaded |
| they | had cascaded |
Future
| I | will cascade |
| you | will cascade |
| he;she;it | will cascade |
| we | will cascade |
| you | will cascade |
| they | will cascade |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cascaded |
| you | will have cascaded |
| he;she;it | will have cascaded |
| we | will have cascaded |
| you | will have cascaded |
| they | will have cascaded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cascade |
| you | cascade |
| he;she;it | cascade |
| we | cascade |
| you | cascade |
| they | cascade |
Perfect
| I | have cascaded |
| you | have cascaded |
| he;she;it | have cascaded |
| we | have cascaded |
| you | have cascaded |
| they | have cascaded |
Imperfect
| I | cascaded |
| you | cascaded |
| he;she;it | cascaded |
| we | cascaded |
| you | cascaded |
| they | cascaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had cascaded |
| you | had cascaded |
| he;she;it | had cascaded |
| we | had cascaded |
| you | had cascaded |
| they | had cascaded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cascade |
| you | would cascade |
| he;she;it | would cascade |
| we | would cascade |
| you | would cascade |
| they | would cascade |
Perfect
| I | would have cascaded |
| you | would have cascaded |
| he;she;it | would have cascaded |
| we | would have cascaded |
| you | would have cascaded |
| they | would have cascaded |
Imperative
| you | cascade |
| we | Let's cascade |
| you | cascade |
Verbs conjugated like 'cascade'
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 'cascade'
caseate,
cassate,
saccade,
abrade,
accede,
ashame,
aslake,
atscape,
bescare,
beshade,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1641, from Fr., from It.
cascata "waterfall," from
cascare "to fall," from V.L.
*casicare, from L.
casum, pp. of
cadere "to fall" (see case (1)). The verb is attested from 1702.
2. From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-. See: Latin '
cadō'.
Sample Sentences
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Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link. [2020 August 26, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21:]
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No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual. [2001, Greg M Perry, Sams teach yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 24 hours:]
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Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy. [2003, Adam Freeman, Allen Jones, Programming .NET Security:]
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Relief arrived at Cardiff Canton depot on 1 September in the shape of the first of 12 Class 170 units cascaded from Greater Anglia. [2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87:]
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The railways have long cascaded stock from flagship routes to less prestigious services, and then eventually the backwaters of the network. In the past, they may even have passed into storage, ready to be dispatched to bolster routes to the coast, such as on summer Saturdays. [2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 44:]
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Then he began to choke. The next thing I knew, he cascaded onto my new carpet. [2011, Amanda Quick, With This Ring:]