Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to imp
Participle: imped
Gerund: imping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | imp |
| you | imp |
| he;she;it | imps |
| we | imp |
| you | imp |
| they | imp |
Perfect
| I | have imped |
| you | have imped |
| he;she;it | has imped |
| we | have imped |
| you | have imped |
| they | have imped |
Past
| I | imped |
| you | imped |
| he;she;it | imped |
| we | imped |
| you | imped |
| they | imped |
Pluperfect
| I | had imped |
| you | had imped |
| he;she;it | had imped |
| we | had imped |
| you | had imped |
| they | had imped |
Future
| I | will imp |
| you | will imp |
| he;she;it | will imp |
| we | will imp |
| you | will imp |
| they | will imp |
Future Perfect
| I | will have imped |
| you | will have imped |
| he;she;it | will have imped |
| we | will have imped |
| you | will have imped |
| they | will have imped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | imp |
| you | imp |
| he;she;it | imp |
| we | imp |
| you | imp |
| they | imp |
Perfect
| I | have imped |
| you | have imped |
| he;she;it | have imped |
| we | have imped |
| you | have imped |
| they | have imped |
Imperfect
| I | imped |
| you | imped |
| he;she;it | imped |
| we | imped |
| you | imped |
| they | imped |
Pluperfect
| I | had imped |
| you | had imped |
| he;she;it | had imped |
| we | had imped |
| you | had imped |
| they | had imped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would imp |
| you | would imp |
| he;she;it | would imp |
| we | would imp |
| you | would imp |
| they | would imp |
Perfect
| I | would have imped |
| you | would have imped |
| he;she;it | would have imped |
| we | would have imped |
| you | would have imped |
| they | would have imped |
Imperative
| you | imp |
| we | Let's imp |
| you | imp |
Verbs conjugated like 'imp'
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 'imp'
amp,
gimp,
limp,
pimp,
simp,
ump,
wimp,
aim,
bap,
bip,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
impe, impa "young shoot, graft," from
impian "to graft," probably an early W.Gmc. borrowing from V.L.
*imptus, from L.L.
impotus "implanted," from Gk.
emphytos, verbal adj. formed from
emphyein "implant," from
em- "in" +
phyein "to plant." Sense of "child, offspring" (1377) came from transfer of word from plants to people, with notion of "newness" preserved. Modern meaning "little devil" (1584) is from common use in pejorative phrases like
imp of Satan."Suche appereth as aungelles, but in very dede they be ymps of serpentes." ["The Pilgrimage of Perfection," 1526]
2. From Middle English impen, ympen (“to plant; (figuratively) to bury; to graft; to add to, insert, put into, set in; to mend (a falcon’s feather) by attaching a new feather on to the broken stump”), from Old English impian, ġeimpian (“to graft”), from Proto-West Germanic *impōn (“to graft”), from Vulgar Latin *imputō (“to graft”), from Ancient Greek ἔμφῠτος (émphŭtos, “implanted; planted”), from ἐμφῠ́ω (emphŭ́ō, “to implant”, from ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in’) + φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “to bring forth, produce; to grow”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear; to become; to grow”))) + -τος (-tos). See: Old English '
impian'.
Verbs referencing "imp"
German, old spelling
impfen.
Sample Sentences
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That headleſſe tyrants tronke he reard from ground, / And, having ympt the head to it agayne, / Vpon his vſuall beaſt it firmely bound, / And made it ſo to ride, as it aliue was found. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 128:]
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I have known feathers so imped that the eye could not discern the place of juncture, and it was difficult even to discover it by passing the thumb-nail down the shaft of the imped feather. [1900, E[dward] B[lair] Michell, “Accidents and Maladies”, in The Art and Practice of Hawking, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 229:]
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Bird rehabilitators borrow a trick from falconry with the age-old process of imping flight feathers on to a damaged bird. [2004, Roseann Tomko, Illinois Audubon, Wayne, Ill.: Illinois Audubon Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:]
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[page 246, column 1] Feather damage is a serious problem for any bird. […] Repairing or imping broken feathers is a very good option in these cases and may save months or even a year in captivity. […] [page 250, column 1] Note that a feather can usually only be imped once since it is very difficult or impossible to remove and then replace an imping needle from within a feather shaft after it has been glued in place. [2016, David E. Scott, “Feathers and Aging”, in Raptor Medicine, Surgery and Rehabilitation, 2nd edition, Wallingford, Oxfordshire; Boston, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, pages 246 and 250:]
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With thee / Let me combine, / And feel this day thy victorie: / For, if I imp my wing on thine, / Affliction ſhall advance the flight in me. [[1633], George Herbert, “Easter Wings”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC, page 35:]