Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gut
Participle: guted
Gerund: guting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gut |
| you | gut |
| he;she;it | guts |
| we | gut |
| you | gut |
| they | gut |
Perfect
| I | have guted |
| you | have guted |
| he;she;it | has guted |
| we | have guted |
| you | have guted |
| they | have guted |
Past
| I | guted |
| you | guted |
| he;she;it | guted |
| we | guted |
| you | guted |
| they | guted |
Pluperfect
| I | had guted |
| you | had guted |
| he;she;it | had guted |
| we | had guted |
| you | had guted |
| they | had guted |
Future
| I | will gut |
| you | will gut |
| he;she;it | will gut |
| we | will gut |
| you | will gut |
| they | will gut |
Future Perfect
| I | will have guted |
| you | will have guted |
| he;she;it | will have guted |
| we | will have guted |
| you | will have guted |
| they | will have guted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gut |
| you | gut |
| he;she;it | gut |
| we | gut |
| you | gut |
| they | gut |
Perfect
| I | have guted |
| you | have guted |
| he;she;it | have guted |
| we | have guted |
| you | have guted |
| they | have guted |
Imperfect
| I | guted |
| you | guted |
| he;she;it | guted |
| we | guted |
| you | guted |
| they | guted |
Pluperfect
| I | had guted |
| you | had guted |
| he;she;it | had guted |
| we | had guted |
| you | had guted |
| they | had guted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gut |
| you | would gut |
| he;she;it | would gut |
| we | would gut |
| you | would gut |
| they | would gut |
Perfect
| I | would have guted |
| you | would have guted |
| he;she;it | would have guted |
| we | would have guted |
| you | would have guted |
| they | would have guted |
Imperative
| you | gut |
| we | Let's gut |
| you | gut |
Verbs conjugated like 'gut'
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 'gut'
but,
cut,
gat,
get,
glut,
got,
gub,
gum,
gun,
gust,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
guttas (pl.) "bowels, entrails," related to
geotan "to pour," from PIE
*gh(e)u- "pour." Related to M.Du.
gote, Ger.
Gosse "gutter, drain," M.E.
gote "channel, stream." Meaning "easy college course" is student slang from 1916, probably from obsolete slang sense of "feast" (the connecting notion is "something that one can eat up"). Sense of "inside contents of anything" (usually pl.) is from 1580. Figurative pl.
guts "spirit, courage," first recorded 1893; hence
gutless "cowardly" (1915). The verb meaning "to remove the guts of" (of fish, etc.) is from c.1300. To
hate (someone's) guts is first attested 1918.
Gut reaction is 1963, probably a back-formation from
gutsy (1936) "tough, plucky."
2. From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.
3. The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”). See: English '
gote'.
Verbs referencing "gut"
Greek, Ancient
χέω.
Sample Sentences
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Holonym: field dress
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The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
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The lioness gutted her prey.
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Fire gutted the building.
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Congress gutted the welfare bill.
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The fuselage came to rest 522 feet from the initial impact point on a magnetic heading of 175 degrees. The complete fuselage from the nose section, including the nose gear section, aft to the empennage, was extensively burned and gutted by fire. The cabin area, which consisted of only the lower fuselage, was melted and the metal was visible in the ice. [1982 July 20, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage and Impact Information”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458, deHavilland DHC-6-100, N127PM, Near Providence, Rhode Island, February 21, 1982, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2024, page 4:]
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He gutted the kitchen, replacing an outdated scheme with a sexy mélange of mirror, lacquer, Rouge Griotte marble, and African mahogany. [2026 May 26, Sam Cochran, “Show of Hands”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 69:]
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They were gutted by the court's decision.
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It's no worse than what he said in Miami, but hearing him repeat it, attribute it to my father...it guts me. “That's who your family is. Who you are. Stangers—Stanleys, whatever your fucking names are,” he spits. [2016 October 4, Danielle Pearl, In Ruins, Forever, →ISBN:]
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What's bothering me is that I'd felt more for him than I realized, and it guts me that it's over before it can really get going. [2017 October 4, Angela Quarles, Earning It: A Romantic Comedy, Unsealed Room Press, →ISBN:]