Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mill about
Participle: milled about
Gerund: milling about
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mill about |
| you | mill about |
| he;she;it | mills about |
| we | mill about |
| you | mill about |
| they | mill about |
Perfect
| I | have milled about |
| you | have milled about |
| he;she;it | has milled about |
| we | have milled about |
| you | have milled about |
| they | have milled about |
Past
| I | milled about |
| you | milled about |
| he;she;it | milled about |
| we | milled about |
| you | milled about |
| they | milled about |
Pluperfect
| I | had milled about |
| you | had milled about |
| he;she;it | had milled about |
| we | had milled about |
| you | had milled about |
| they | had milled about |
Future
| I | will mill about |
| you | will mill about |
| he;she;it | will mill about |
| we | will mill about |
| you | will mill about |
| they | will mill about |
Future Perfect
| I | will have milled about |
| you | will have milled about |
| he;she;it | will have milled about |
| we | will have milled about |
| you | will have milled about |
| they | will have milled about |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mill about |
| you | mill about |
| he;she;it | mill about |
| we | mill about |
| you | mill about |
| they | mill about |
Perfect
| I | have milled about |
| you | have milled about |
| he;she;it | have milled about |
| we | have milled about |
| you | have milled about |
| they | have milled about |
Imperfect
| I | milled about |
| you | milled about |
| he;she;it | milled about |
| we | milled about |
| you | milled about |
| they | milled about |
Pluperfect
| I | had milled about |
| you | had milled about |
| he;she;it | had milled about |
| we | had milled about |
| you | had milled about |
| they | had milled about |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mill about |
| you | would mill about |
| he;she;it | would mill about |
| we | would mill about |
| you | would mill about |
| they | would mill about |
Perfect
| I | would have milled about |
| you | would have milled about |
| he;she;it | would have milled about |
| we | would have milled about |
| you | would have milled about |
| they | would have milled about |
Imperative
| you | mill about |
| we | Let's mill about |
| you | mill about |
Verbs conjugated like 'mill'
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 'mill'
bill,
dill,
fill,
gill,
hill,
jill,
kill,
lill,
mall,
mell,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to keep moving round and round in a mass, 1874 (implied in
milling), originally of cattle, from mill (n.1) on resemblance to the action of a mill wheel.
2. From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline, moulin, and blin. See: Latin '
molō', Proto-Germanic '
*muljaną', English '
millstone'.
Sample Sentences
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to mill flour
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I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
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The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge. [1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:]
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As guests milled around them, he [Zuckerberg] described his goal of turning every person in the country with an internet connection into a Facebook user. [2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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to mill cattle
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Ortheris said nothing for a while. Then he unslung his belt, heavy with the badges of half a dozen regiments that his own had lain with, and handed it over to Mulvaney.
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"I'm too little for to mill you, Mulvaney," said he, "an' you've strook me before; but you can take an' cut me in two with this 'ere if you like." [1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris:]
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[…]he had “milled” a policeman [1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC:]
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This maize mills well.
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Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you. [1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:]
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And why not?—You would think little of peaching and hanging him for this Scotch affair.—Rat me, one might have milled the Bank of England, and less noise about it. [1818, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Heart of Midlothian:]