Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gherao
Participle: gheraoed
Gerund: gheraoing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gherao |
| you | gherao |
| he;she;it | gheraos |
| we | gherao |
| you | gherao |
| they | gherao |
Perfect
| I | have gheraoed |
| you | have gheraoed |
| he;she;it | has gheraoed |
| we | have gheraoed |
| you | have gheraoed |
| they | have gheraoed |
Past
| I | gheraoed |
| you | gheraoed |
| he;she;it | gheraoed |
| we | gheraoed |
| you | gheraoed |
| they | gheraoed |
Pluperfect
| I | had gheraoed |
| you | had gheraoed |
| he;she;it | had gheraoed |
| we | had gheraoed |
| you | had gheraoed |
| they | had gheraoed |
Future
| I | will gherao |
| you | will gherao |
| he;she;it | will gherao |
| we | will gherao |
| you | will gherao |
| they | will gherao |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gheraoed |
| you | will have gheraoed |
| he;she;it | will have gheraoed |
| we | will have gheraoed |
| you | will have gheraoed |
| they | will have gheraoed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gherao |
| you | gherao |
| he;she;it | gherao |
| we | gherao |
| you | gherao |
| they | gherao |
Perfect
| I | have gheraoed |
| you | have gheraoed |
| he;she;it | have gheraoed |
| we | have gheraoed |
| you | have gheraoed |
| they | have gheraoed |
Imperfect
| I | gheraoed |
| you | gheraoed |
| he;she;it | gheraoed |
| we | gheraoed |
| you | gheraoed |
| they | gheraoed |
Pluperfect
| I | had gheraoed |
| you | had gheraoed |
| he;she;it | had gheraoed |
| we | had gheraoed |
| you | had gheraoed |
| they | had gheraoed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gherao |
| you | would gherao |
| he;she;it | would gherao |
| we | would gherao |
| you | would gherao |
| they | would gherao |
Perfect
| I | would have gheraoed |
| you | would have gheraoed |
| he;she;it | would have gheraoed |
| we | would have gheraoed |
| you | would have gheraoed |
| they | would have gheraoed |
Imperative
| you | gherao |
| we | Let's gherao |
| you | gherao |
Verbs conjugated like 'gherao'
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 'gherao'
ghetto,
beray,
cheap,
cheat,
cherup,
derat,
deray,
geal,
gear,
gecko,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Hindi घेराव (gherāv, “encirclement”).
Sample Sentences
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One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office. [1996, Kavery Nambisan, The Scent of Pepper, Penguin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 215:]
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In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station. [2006, Shakuntala Devi, Employment of Labour and Rural Development, Sarup & Sons, →ISBN, page 53:]
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Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs, […] [2010, B. G. Verghese, First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India, Tranquebar Press, →ISBN:]