Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to jazz
Participle: jazzed
Gerund: jazzing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | jazz |
| you | jazz |
| he;she;it | jazzes |
| we | jazz |
| you | jazz |
| they | jazz |
Perfect
| I | have jazzed |
| you | have jazzed |
| he;she;it | has jazzed |
| we | have jazzed |
| you | have jazzed |
| they | have jazzed |
Past
| I | jazzed |
| you | jazzed |
| he;she;it | jazzed |
| we | jazzed |
| you | jazzed |
| they | jazzed |
Pluperfect
| I | had jazzed |
| you | had jazzed |
| he;she;it | had jazzed |
| we | had jazzed |
| you | had jazzed |
| they | had jazzed |
Future
| I | will jazz |
| you | will jazz |
| he;she;it | will jazz |
| we | will jazz |
| you | will jazz |
| they | will jazz |
Future Perfect
| I | will have jazzed |
| you | will have jazzed |
| he;she;it | will have jazzed |
| we | will have jazzed |
| you | will have jazzed |
| they | will have jazzed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | jazz |
| you | jazz |
| he;she;it | jazz |
| we | jazz |
| you | jazz |
| they | jazz |
Perfect
| I | have jazzed |
| you | have jazzed |
| he;she;it | have jazzed |
| we | have jazzed |
| you | have jazzed |
| they | have jazzed |
Imperfect
| I | jazzed |
| you | jazzed |
| he;she;it | jazzed |
| we | jazzed |
| you | jazzed |
| they | jazzed |
Pluperfect
| I | had jazzed |
| you | had jazzed |
| he;she;it | had jazzed |
| we | had jazzed |
| you | had jazzed |
| they | had jazzed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would jazz |
| you | would jazz |
| he;she;it | would jazz |
| we | would jazz |
| you | would jazz |
| they | would jazz |
Perfect
| I | would have jazzed |
| you | would have jazzed |
| he;she;it | would have jazzed |
| we | would have jazzed |
| you | would have jazzed |
| they | would have jazzed |
Imperative
| you | jazz |
| we | Let's jazz |
| you | jazz |
Verbs conjugated like 'jazz'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'jazz'
jizz,
razz,
adz,
baze,
buzz,
bzz,
daze,
dizz,
faze,
fizz,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to prostitute oneself
- prostitute oneself, whore
- to destroy
- destroy
- to play jazz music
- play music
- to enliven
- ginger, enliven
- to complicate
- complicate
- to pester
- annoy
- to cause someone to be upset or displeased
- aggravate, annoy, antagonize, bother, bug, chap someone's hide, exasperate, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get up, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, irk, nark, peeve, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rile, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, ruffle someone's feathers, tick off, try one's patience, vex, wind up
- to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
- benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, erase, fuck, liquidate, nuke, pull down, ravage, remove, destroy, total, wipe off, wreck
- to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult
- complex, complexify, complicate, complify, confuscate, involve
- to cause to become more lively and energetic
- animate, beghast, brighten, energize, enliven, enthuse, exalt, excite, ginger up, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, liven, liven up, perk up, quicken, spice, spice up, vitalise
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.
Sample Sentences
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You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
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Don’t jazz it too much!
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‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’ [1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 59:]
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I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush! [1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links:]
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"In the old days, heaps of unmarried women were companions, and let me tell you, my dear girl, they had a much better time than they have now, with all this jazzing and short skirts and pretending to have careers. The modern girl hasn't a scrap of decent feeling or sentiment about her. Money--money and notoriety, that's all she's after. That's what we fought the war for--and that's what we've come back to!" "George, do keep to the point. Miss Dorland doesn't jazz--" [1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club:]
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‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’ [1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 119:]
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Stop jazzing me!
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Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time. Ebony orgasm flooded her with creme. [1982, Arthur Winfield Knight, Kit Knight, Beat angels, page 7:]
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The thrill of the rimming soon made this guy beg for me to stop before he jazzed his nuts. [1986, Winston Leyland, Hard, page 84:]
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I reached around and began jacking off Marshall's prick as I was jazzing his ass. [1988, First Hand - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 47:]