Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to embase
Participle: embased
Gerund: embasing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | embase |
| you | embase |
| he;she;it | embases |
| we | embase |
| you | embase |
| they | embase |
Perfect
| I | have embased |
| you | have embased |
| he;she;it | has embased |
| we | have embased |
| you | have embased |
| they | have embased |
Past
| I | embased |
| you | embased |
| he;she;it | embased |
| we | embased |
| you | embased |
| they | embased |
Pluperfect
| I | had embased |
| you | had embased |
| he;she;it | had embased |
| we | had embased |
| you | had embased |
| they | had embased |
Future
| I | will embase |
| you | will embase |
| he;she;it | will embase |
| we | will embase |
| you | will embase |
| they | will embase |
Future Perfect
| I | will have embased |
| you | will have embased |
| he;she;it | will have embased |
| we | will have embased |
| you | will have embased |
| they | will have embased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | embase |
| you | embase |
| he;she;it | embase |
| we | embase |
| you | embase |
| they | embase |
Perfect
| I | have embased |
| you | have embased |
| he;she;it | have embased |
| we | have embased |
| you | have embased |
| they | have embased |
Imperfect
| I | embased |
| you | embased |
| he;she;it | embased |
| we | embased |
| you | embased |
| they | embased |
Pluperfect
| I | had embased |
| you | had embased |
| he;she;it | had embased |
| we | had embased |
| you | had embased |
| they | had embased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would embase |
| you | would embase |
| he;she;it | would embase |
| we | would embase |
| you | would embase |
| they | would embase |
Perfect
| I | would have embased |
| you | would have embased |
| he;she;it | would have embased |
| we | would have embased |
| you | would have embased |
| they | would have embased |
Imperative
| you | embase |
| we | Let's embase |
| you | embase |
Verbs conjugated like 'embase'
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 'embase'
embace,
embale,
imbase,
abase,
ambass,
base,
debase,
ease,
emball,
embalm,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From em- + base. Compare Old French embaissier.
Sample Sentences
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[God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills. [1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:]
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And either vowd with all their power and witt
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To let not others honour be defaste
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Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. [1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:]
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Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]