Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to purfle
Participle: purfled
Gerund: purfling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | purfle |
| you | purfle |
| he;she;it | purfles |
| we | purfle |
| you | purfle |
| they | purfle |
Perfect
| I | have purfled |
| you | have purfled |
| he;she;it | has purfled |
| we | have purfled |
| you | have purfled |
| they | have purfled |
Past
| I | purfled |
| you | purfled |
| he;she;it | purfled |
| we | purfled |
| you | purfled |
| they | purfled |
Pluperfect
| I | had purfled |
| you | had purfled |
| he;she;it | had purfled |
| we | had purfled |
| you | had purfled |
| they | had purfled |
Future
| I | will purfle |
| you | will purfle |
| he;she;it | will purfle |
| we | will purfle |
| you | will purfle |
| they | will purfle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have purfled |
| you | will have purfled |
| he;she;it | will have purfled |
| we | will have purfled |
| you | will have purfled |
| they | will have purfled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | purfle |
| you | purfle |
| he;she;it | purfle |
| we | purfle |
| you | purfle |
| they | purfle |
Perfect
| I | have purfled |
| you | have purfled |
| he;she;it | have purfled |
| we | have purfled |
| you | have purfled |
| they | have purfled |
Imperfect
| I | purfled |
| you | purfled |
| he;she;it | purfled |
| we | purfled |
| you | purfled |
| they | purfled |
Pluperfect
| I | had purfled |
| you | had purfled |
| he;she;it | had purfled |
| we | had purfled |
| you | had purfled |
| they | had purfled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would purfle |
| you | would purfle |
| he;she;it | would purfle |
| we | would purfle |
| you | would purfle |
| they | would purfle |
Perfect
| I | would have purfled |
| you | would have purfled |
| he;she;it | would have purfled |
| we | would have purfled |
| you | would have purfled |
| they | would have purfled |
Imperative
| you | purfle |
| we | Let's purfle |
| you | purfle |
Verbs conjugated like 'purfle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'purfle'
purple,
surfle,
buffle,
burble,
burgle,
curdle,
fuffle,
furdle,
furtle,
gurgle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Old French porfiler, from Latin pro- + filum (“thread”). Doublet of profile.
Sample Sentences
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And this was his message gretynge wel kynge Arthur in this manere wyse sayenge / that kynge Ryons had discomfyte and ouercome xj kynges /[…]/ they gaf hym their berdys clene flayne[…]/ wher for the messager came for kyng Arthurs berd / For kyng Ryons had purfyled a mantel with kynges berdes / and there lacked one place of the mantel [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:]
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He had a faire companion of his way, / A goodly Lady, clad in ſcarlot red, / Purfled with gold and pearle of rich aſſay, […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13, page 10:]
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It came to pass on a certain day, as he stood about the street leaning idly upon his crate, behold, there stood before him an honourable woman in a mantilla of Mosul silk, broidered with gold and bordered with brocade; her walking shoes were also purfled with gold and her hair floated in long plaits. [1885, Sir Richard Burton, “The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad”, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 1:]
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Remembering the exchange now, Dickie smiled that winning southern-boy smile. Then he went glum again. He thumped the purfled sound board. [2003, Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito:]
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Crest; a dragon passant proper, wings elevated and purfled gules. [1815, John Wilkes, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, page 606:]