Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to furcate
Participle: furcated
Gerund: furcating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | furcate |
| you | furcate |
| he;she;it | furcates |
| we | furcate |
| you | furcate |
| they | furcate |
Perfect
| I | have furcated |
| you | have furcated |
| he;she;it | has furcated |
| we | have furcated |
| you | have furcated |
| they | have furcated |
Past
| I | furcated |
| you | furcated |
| he;she;it | furcated |
| we | furcated |
| you | furcated |
| they | furcated |
Pluperfect
| I | had furcated |
| you | had furcated |
| he;she;it | had furcated |
| we | had furcated |
| you | had furcated |
| they | had furcated |
Future
| I | will furcate |
| you | will furcate |
| he;she;it | will furcate |
| we | will furcate |
| you | will furcate |
| they | will furcate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have furcated |
| you | will have furcated |
| he;she;it | will have furcated |
| we | will have furcated |
| you | will have furcated |
| they | will have furcated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | furcate |
| you | furcate |
| he;she;it | furcate |
| we | furcate |
| you | furcate |
| they | furcate |
Perfect
| I | have furcated |
| you | have furcated |
| he;she;it | have furcated |
| we | have furcated |
| you | have furcated |
| they | have furcated |
Imperfect
| I | furcated |
| you | furcated |
| he;she;it | furcated |
| we | furcated |
| you | furcated |
| they | furcated |
Pluperfect
| I | had furcated |
| you | had furcated |
| he;she;it | had furcated |
| we | had furcated |
| you | had furcated |
| they | had furcated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would furcate |
| you | would furcate |
| he;she;it | would furcate |
| we | would furcate |
| you | would furcate |
| they | would furcate |
Perfect
| I | would have furcated |
| you | would have furcated |
| he;she;it | would have furcated |
| we | would have furcated |
| you | would have furcated |
| they | would have furcated |
Imperative
| you | furcate |
| we | Let's furcate |
| you | furcate |
Verbs conjugated like 'furcate'
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 'furcate'
bifurcate,
curate,
formate,
fungate,
furnace,
surbate,
aerate,
aeriate,
affricate,
apricate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Medieval Latin furcātus (“forked, branched”), from Latin furca (“fork”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French fourchu.
2. The verb was formed by metanalysis or as if from Latin furcō (“to fork”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Sample Sentences
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But that which I believe yields a great deal of our turpentine, is the fir-tree or deal, which is a coniferous tree, evergreen, whose cones are of the lesser sort, having long leaves, either that whose leaves encompass and cover the branches, bearing long cones hanging downwards as she male fir-tree or pitch-tree; or that whose leaves grow from each side of the stalk, being more flat than those of yew, green on the upper side, and whitish underneath, furcated at the end, bearing cones shorter and thicker, growing erect, as the female fir-tree. [1700 May 17, John Houghton, Husbandry and trade improv'd, number 408:]
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These ridges are prominent, about the thickness of a coarse thread, very numerous, irregular, and run into one another, but towards the bottom, always furcate or divide. [1778, Emanuel Mendes Da Costa, Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniaeor, or The British conchology, page 173:]
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In Dyticus it even furcates, and with both prongs of the fork it encloses the intestine, and lower down the nervous cord [1836, Hermann Burmeister, A Manual of entomology, page 239:]
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Descending keel of the pronotum, which divides into two furcating lamella [1836, Hermann Burmeister, A Manual of entomology, page 641:]