overhail – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of overhail

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to overhail
Participle: overhailed
Gerund: overhailing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ioverhail
youoverhail
he;she;itoverhails
weoverhail
youoverhail
theyoverhail

Perfect

Ihave overhailed
youhave overhailed
he;she;ithas overhailed
wehave overhailed
youhave overhailed
theyhave overhailed

Past

Ioverhailed
youoverhailed
he;she;itoverhailed
weoverhailed
youoverhailed
theyoverhailed

Pluperfect

Ihad overhailed
youhad overhailed
he;she;ithad overhailed
wehad overhailed
youhad overhailed
theyhad overhailed

Future

Iwill overhail
youwill overhail
he;she;itwill overhail
wewill overhail
youwill overhail
theywill overhail

Future Perfect

Iwill have overhailed
youwill have overhailed
he;she;itwill have overhailed
wewill have overhailed
youwill have overhailed
theywill have overhailed

Subjunctive

Present

Ioverhail
youoverhail
he;she;itoverhail
weoverhail
youoverhail
theyoverhail

Perfect

Ihave overhailed
youhave overhailed
he;she;ithave overhailed
wehave overhailed
youhave overhailed
theyhave overhailed

Imperfect

Ioverhailed
youoverhailed
he;she;itoverhailed
weoverhailed
youoverhailed
theyoverhailed

Pluperfect

Ihad overhailed
youhad overhailed
he;she;ithad overhailed
wehad overhailed
youhad overhailed
theyhad overhailed

Conditional

Present

Iwould overhail
youwould overhail
he;she;itwould overhail
wewould overhail
youwould overhail
theywould overhail

Perfect

Iwould have overhailed
youwould have overhailed
he;she;itwould have overhailed
wewould have overhailed
youwould have overhailed
theywould have overhailed

Imperative

youoverhail
weLet's overhail
youoverhail

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam overhailing
youare overhailing
he;she;itis overhailing
weare overhailing
youare overhailing
theyare overhailing

Perfect

Ihave been overhailing
youhave been overhailing
he;she;ithas been overhailing
wehave been overhailing
youhave been overhailing
theyhave been overhailing

Past

Iwas overhailing
youwere overhailing
he;she;itwas overhailing
wewere overhailing
youwere overhailing
theywere overhailing

Pluperfect

Ihad been overhailing
youhad been overhailing
he;she;ithad been overhailing
wehad been overhailing
youhad been overhailing
theyhad been overhailing

Future

Iwill be overhailing
youwill be overhailing
he;she;itwill be overhailing
wewill be overhailing
youwill be overhailing
theywill be overhailing

Future Perfect

Iwill have been overhailing
youwill have been overhailing
he;she;itwill have been overhailing
wewill have been overhailing
youwill have been overhailing
theywill have been overhailing

Conditional

Present

Iwould be overhailing
youwould be overhailing
he;she;itwould be overhailing
wewould be overhailing
youwould be overhailing
theywould be overhailing

Perfect

Iwould have been overhailing
youwould have been overhailing
he;she;itwould have been overhailing
wewould have been overhailing
youwould have been overhailing
theywould have been overhailing

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'overhail'

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)

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Sample Sentences

  • No hunter, so, but finds the breeding of the West best; The only kind of hounds for mouth and nostril That cold doth seldom fret, nor heat doth overhail; As standing in the flight, as pleasant on the trail; Free hunting, eas'ly checkt, and loving every chase; pace: Strait running, hard and tough, of reasonable Not heavy, as that hound which Lancashire dot breed; [1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:]
  • And there is this lastly, that doth evidencee it, when one doth sin with much Deliberation and Advice, they are not overhailed by their Temptations and Lusts, and they sit down in Council to consult how such a thing may be effectuat; then had Iniqnity dominion over those that are made mention of Micah 2.1, We to them that devise iniquity upon their Beds, that sit down deliberately in the silent seasons of the night to contrive the mischievous Plots of their Hearts: [1693, The Spiritual Warfare:]
  • In the strength of the Lord thy God go forward, and suffer not cowardice to overhail thee. [1854, Henry Hutchinson, The Religious Experience and Prophecies of H. Hutchinson:]
  • So this star of Iacob had some staines, blemishes caft upon his light and lustre, especially in the cause of Vriah and his wife, not to be covered or alleviated any way: ótherwise he was as a guide by night, so bee the starres of heaven, in overhailed darknesse, to direct Israel in Gods wayes, and to discover dangers which might accrue. [1642, The Acts and Monuments of the Church Before Christ Incarnate:]
  • He looked at me, and took all patiently that I spoke ; the tears overhailed his cheeks abundantly. [1877, Francis Sadleir Stoney, A Memoir of the Life and Times of the Right Honerable Sir Ralph Sadleir, page 187:]
  • We are sore overhailed and troubled with watch and warding, and surely it is a great charge to us in the country. [1899, Richard Arthur Roberts, Edward Salisbury, Montague Spencer Giuseppi, Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquess of Salisbury:]
  • In fact a stage has reached in Indo- nepalese relations where the pattern of Indian aid needs to be overhailed. [1997, B. K. Tewari, Awadhesh Kumar Singh, India's Neighbours: Past and Future, page 119:]
  • While planned shutdown for overhailing and maintenance is a regular feature of a power supply system, continued and unplanned outages from installed units require immediate corrective steps. [2000, Asom Prakalpa (Group), Assam beyond 2000, page 62:]
  • We hade fine pleasant clear weather with fine regular Sea and Land breezes—the first part of this day we was Employed Compleating our Rigging and overhailing our Sea provisions, and making a thorough clean all over the ship we now got up our yards and topmasts and tard all our yards and standing rigging, at Night we had a fine pleasant land breeze which neaver feald to bring of a sweet and agreeable smell of various sorts of fruits and herbs... [2017, Hugh Carrington, The Discovery of Tahiti, A Journal of the Second Voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin, →ISBN:]
  • And the second thing is to hail, perhaps overhail, the good things in live drama. [1959, Jonas Mekas, Film Culture - Issues 19-23, page 22:]
  • The role of rhetoric in all this business of perceptions is even more a determining factor than the tardily and overhailed message of the medium so much mentioned by people who read and write with difficulty. [1973, Library Journal - Volume 98, page 1065:]
  • This is a more coherent account of Vietnam than Michael Herr's brutish and overhailed Dispatches, which Pilger rightly slates as “making respectable the narcissism of a breed of war lovers." [1987, Financial Mail, page 265:]
  • Freud perhaps overhailed the book by calling Dostoevsky's masterpiece the greatest Western novel, but it strongly contends with Cervantes, Tolstoy, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Joyce, Mann, Lawrence, or anyone else. [2015, Harold Bloom, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, →ISBN:]