Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to co-opt
Participle: co-opted
Gerund: co-opting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | co-opt |
| you | co-opt |
| he;she;it | co-opts |
| we | co-opt |
| you | co-opt |
| they | co-opt |
Perfect
| I | have co-opted |
| you | have co-opted |
| he;she;it | has co-opted |
| we | have co-opted |
| you | have co-opted |
| they | have co-opted |
Past
| I | co-opted |
| you | co-opted |
| he;she;it | co-opted |
| we | co-opted |
| you | co-opted |
| they | co-opted |
Pluperfect
| I | had co-opted |
| you | had co-opted |
| he;she;it | had co-opted |
| we | had co-opted |
| you | had co-opted |
| they | had co-opted |
Future
| I | will co-opt |
| you | will co-opt |
| he;she;it | will co-opt |
| we | will co-opt |
| you | will co-opt |
| they | will co-opt |
Future Perfect
| I | will have co-opted |
| you | will have co-opted |
| he;she;it | will have co-opted |
| we | will have co-opted |
| you | will have co-opted |
| they | will have co-opted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | co-opt |
| you | co-opt |
| he;she;it | co-opt |
| we | co-opt |
| you | co-opt |
| they | co-opt |
Perfect
| I | have co-opted |
| you | have co-opted |
| he;she;it | have co-opted |
| we | have co-opted |
| you | have co-opted |
| they | have co-opted |
Imperfect
| I | co-opted |
| you | co-opted |
| he;she;it | co-opted |
| we | co-opted |
| you | co-opted |
| they | co-opted |
Pluperfect
| I | had co-opted |
| you | had co-opted |
| he;she;it | had co-opted |
| we | had co-opted |
| you | had co-opted |
| they | had co-opted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would co-opt |
| you | would co-opt |
| he;she;it | would co-opt |
| we | would co-opt |
| you | would co-opt |
| they | would co-opt |
Perfect
| I | would have co-opted |
| you | would have co-opted |
| he;she;it | would have co-opted |
| we | would have co-opted |
| you | would have co-opted |
| they | would have co-opted |
Imperative
| you | co-opt |
| we | Let's co-opt |
| you | co-opt |
Verbs conjugated like 'co-opt'
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 'co-opt'
co-op,
coopt,
co-host,
co-own,
coapt,
cohort,
cohost,
compt,
coop,
coöpt,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Latin cooptō (“to choose, elect”), from co(m)- + optō (“to opt”). See: Latin '
cooptō'.
Sample Sentences
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Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be co-opted by them—as propaganda or R&D—as the rise of the so-called knowledge economy has amply demonstrated. [2009, chapter 2, in Josephine Berry Slater, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, editors, Proud to be Flesh, →ISBN:]
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In the resolution between the culture and the counterculture, it is impossible to tell who co-opted whom, because in reality the bohemians and the bourgeois co-opted each other. They emerge from this process as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos. [2000, David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise […] , Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:]
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Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: nearly seven meandering, episodic minutes of unlikely chord changes […] [2016 July 7, Alexis Petridis, “Roísín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto review – still too strange for the bigtime”, in The Guardian:]