Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pillar
Participle: pillared
Gerund: pillaring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pillar |
| you | pillar |
| he;she;it | pillars |
| we | pillar |
| you | pillar |
| they | pillar |
Perfect
| I | have pillared |
| you | have pillared |
| he;she;it | has pillared |
| we | have pillared |
| you | have pillared |
| they | have pillared |
Past
| I | pillared |
| you | pillared |
| he;she;it | pillared |
| we | pillared |
| you | pillared |
| they | pillared |
Pluperfect
| I | had pillared |
| you | had pillared |
| he;she;it | had pillared |
| we | had pillared |
| you | had pillared |
| they | had pillared |
Future
| I | will pillar |
| you | will pillar |
| he;she;it | will pillar |
| we | will pillar |
| you | will pillar |
| they | will pillar |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pillared |
| you | will have pillared |
| he;she;it | will have pillared |
| we | will have pillared |
| you | will have pillared |
| they | will have pillared |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pillar |
| you | pillar |
| he;she;it | pillar |
| we | pillar |
| you | pillar |
| they | pillar |
Perfect
| I | have pillared |
| you | have pillared |
| he;she;it | have pillared |
| we | have pillared |
| you | have pillared |
| they | have pillared |
Imperfect
| I | pillared |
| you | pillared |
| he;she;it | pillared |
| we | pillared |
| you | pillared |
| they | pillared |
Pluperfect
| I | had pillared |
| you | had pillared |
| he;she;it | had pillared |
| we | had pillared |
| you | had pillared |
| they | had pillared |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pillar |
| you | would pillar |
| he;she;it | would pillar |
| we | would pillar |
| you | would pillar |
| they | would pillar |
Perfect
| I | would have pillared |
| you | would have pillared |
| he;she;it | would have pillared |
| we | would have pillared |
| you | would have pillared |
| they | would have pillared |
Imperative
| you | pillar |
| we | Let's pillar |
| you | pillar |
Verbs conjugated like 'pillar'
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 'pillar'
cellar,
collar,
gollar,
pilfer,
pilger,
pill,
pillage,
pillory,
pillow,
pollard,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).
Sample Sentences
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Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to "pillaring" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth [1910, James Morgan, Blast furnace practice:]
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We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides [1996, National Academy of Engineering, First annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, page 25:]
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In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix. [1998, Zhong Lin Wang with Zhen Chuan Kang, Functional and smart materials, page 226:]
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It was then that scientists started to create porosity in the interlayer space of layered clays. developing the first pillared clays with pores in the larger microporous region. [2004, Scott M. Auerbach with Kathleen A. Carrado and Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of layered materials, page 261:]