Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gerrymander
Participle: gerrymandered
Gerund: gerrymandering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gerrymander |
| you | gerrymander |
| he;she;it | gerrymanders |
| we | gerrymander |
| you | gerrymander |
| they | gerrymander |
Perfect
| I | have gerrymandered |
| you | have gerrymandered |
| he;she;it | has gerrymandered |
| we | have gerrymandered |
| you | have gerrymandered |
| they | have gerrymandered |
Past
| I | gerrymandered |
| you | gerrymandered |
| he;she;it | gerrymandered |
| we | gerrymandered |
| you | gerrymandered |
| they | gerrymandered |
Pluperfect
| I | had gerrymandered |
| you | had gerrymandered |
| he;she;it | had gerrymandered |
| we | had gerrymandered |
| you | had gerrymandered |
| they | had gerrymandered |
Future
| I | will gerrymander |
| you | will gerrymander |
| he;she;it | will gerrymander |
| we | will gerrymander |
| you | will gerrymander |
| they | will gerrymander |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gerrymandered |
| you | will have gerrymandered |
| he;she;it | will have gerrymandered |
| we | will have gerrymandered |
| you | will have gerrymandered |
| they | will have gerrymandered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gerrymander |
| you | gerrymander |
| he;she;it | gerrymander |
| we | gerrymander |
| you | gerrymander |
| they | gerrymander |
Perfect
| I | have gerrymandered |
| you | have gerrymandered |
| he;she;it | have gerrymandered |
| we | have gerrymandered |
| you | have gerrymandered |
| they | have gerrymandered |
Imperfect
| I | gerrymandered |
| you | gerrymandered |
| he;she;it | gerrymandered |
| we | gerrymandered |
| you | gerrymandered |
| they | gerrymandered |
Pluperfect
| I | had gerrymandered |
| you | had gerrymandered |
| he;she;it | had gerrymandered |
| we | had gerrymandered |
| you | had gerrymandered |
| they | had gerrymandered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gerrymander |
| you | would gerrymander |
| he;she;it | would gerrymander |
| we | would gerrymander |
| you | would gerrymander |
| they | would gerrymander |
Perfect
| I | would have gerrymandered |
| you | would have gerrymandered |
| he;she;it | would have gerrymandered |
| we | would have gerrymandered |
| you | would have gerrymandered |
| they | would have gerrymandered |
Imperative
| you | gerrymander |
| we | Let's gerrymander |
| you | gerrymander |
Verbs conjugated like 'gerrymander'
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 'gerrymander'
jerrymander,
merrymake,
bewander,
brander,
derender,
errand,
fearmonger,
forwander,
gander,
gender,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-
3. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeys-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
5. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós
6. Proto-Germanic *gaizaz
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥h₁-t-
9. Proto-Germanic *wulþǭder.?
10. Proto-Indo-European *welH-der.
11. Proto-Indo-European *wélH-dʰe-tider.
12. Proto-Indo-European *we-wólH-dʰe-ti?
13. Proto-Germanic *waldanąder.
14. Proto-Germanic *waldaz
15. Proto-Germanic *Gaizawaldaz
16. Frankish *Gaiʀawaldbor.
17. Old French Geraldbor.
18. English Gerald
19. ▲
20. Proto-Germanic *gaizaz
21. Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ
22. Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.?
23. Proto-Germanic *harduz
24. Proto-Indo-European *-yos
25. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
26. Proto-Germanic *-jaz
27. Proto-West Germanic *-ī
28. Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī)
29. Frankish *Gaiʀahardbor.
30. Old French Gerartder.
31. Middle English Gerard
32. English Gerard
33. Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-
34. Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī
35. Old English -iġ
36. Middle English -y
37. English -y
38. English Gerry
39. Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra)bor.
40. Latin salamandra
41. Anglo-Norman salamandrebor.
42. Middle English salamandre
43. English salamander
44. blend
45. English gerrymander
46. Blend of Gerry + salamander, named after Elbridge Gerry, then governor of Massachusetts. Coined by the editors of the Boston Gazette in an 26 March 1812 article comparing the new electoral district boundary signed into law by Gerry to the shape of the mythological salamander. The original text was likely written by Nathan Hale and Benjamin and John Russell, accompanying a cartoon by Elkanah Tisdale.
47. Despite Gerry's surname beginning with a hard G (/ɡ/), gerrymander is typically pronounced with a soft G (/dʒ/), as a spelling pronunciation.
Sample Sentences
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Prop 50 would implement a newly gerrymandered map that would hold until the next decennial census, in 2030, when an independent commission would again draw the lines. […] [Will] O’Neill isn’t necessarily wrong. Democrats readily concede that they are betraying principles of good governance in trying to gerrymander California. [2025 October 27, Russell Berman, “‘California Is Allowed to Hit Back’”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2025:]
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The superintendent helped gerrymander the school district lines in order to keep the children of the wealthy gated community in the better school all the way across town.
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[The Reform Bill's] main purpose will be so to gerrymander the electorate as to give the greatest possible assistance to the Radical party at the next election. [1912, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:]
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But Remainers often picture [Brexit] instead as the upshot of a poorly framed question put to an ill-informed, and underrepresentative segment of the population – even the product of a 'gerrymander'. [2018 November 1, Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park, Ros Taylor, The UK's Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit, LSE Press, →ISBN, page 257:]
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Congress delegated to the first legislature the task of setting up elections under territorial law, which it did. But Montana Democrats couldn't pass up the opportunity to gerrymander the rules. [2021 October 29, Jeffrey S. Sutton, Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 110:]
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Westminster City Council has been accused by the District Auditor of using public money to gerrymander marginal wards for the 1990 Borough elections. The strategy of attempting to 'gentrify' eight key wards, selling off council homes and hostels for the homeless to move out potential Labour voters and attract in more Conservative voters, was in conflict with the council's statutory duty to homeless people [2000, Hugo de Burgh, Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 207:]
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Fermanagh Council even went so far as to create the new village of Donagh in an attempt to move Catholics out of Newtownbutler, four miles away, so unionists could gerrymander a majority. [2022 December 1, Trevor Birney, Quinn, Merrion Press, →ISBN:]