Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to stow
Participle: stowed
Gerund: stowing
Indicative
Present
| I | stow |
| you | stow |
| he;she;it | stows |
| we | stow |
| you | stow |
| they | stow |
Perfect
| I | have stowed |
| you | have stowed |
| he;she;it | has stowed |
| we | have stowed |
| you | have stowed |
| they | have stowed |
Past
| I | stowed |
| you | stowed |
| he;she;it | stowed |
| we | stowed |
| you | stowed |
| they | stowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had stowed |
| you | had stowed |
| he;she;it | had stowed |
| we | had stowed |
| you | had stowed |
| they | had stowed |
Future
| I | will stow |
| you | will stow |
| he;she;it | will stow |
| we | will stow |
| you | will stow |
| they | will stow |
Future Perfect
| I | will have stowed |
| you | will have stowed |
| he;she;it | will have stowed |
| we | will have stowed |
| you | will have stowed |
| they | will have stowed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | stow |
| you | stow |
| he;she;it | stow |
| we | stow |
| you | stow |
| they | stow |
Perfect
| I | have stowed |
| you | have stowed |
| he;she;it | have stowed |
| we | have stowed |
| you | have stowed |
| they | have stowed |
Imperfect
| I | stowed |
| you | stowed |
| he;she;it | stowed |
| we | stowed |
| you | stowed |
| they | stowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had stowed |
| you | had stowed |
| he;she;it | had stowed |
| we | had stowed |
| you | had stowed |
| they | had stowed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would stow |
| you | would stow |
| he;she;it | would stow |
| we | would stow |
| you | would stow |
| they | would stow |
Perfect
| I | would have stowed |
| you | would have stowed |
| he;she;it | would have stowed |
| we | would have stowed |
| you | would have stowed |
| they | would have stowed |
Imperative
| you | stow |
| we | Let's stow |
| you | stow |
Verbs conjugated like 'stow'
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 'stow'
scow,
show,
slow,
snow,
sow,
staw,
stew,
stob,
stop,
tow,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”). See: Dutch '
stuwen', Low Saxon 'stauen', German, old spelling '
stauen'.
Verbs referencing "stow"
Lithuanian
stovėti.
Sample Sentences
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[...] dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in some odd corner out of sight (portmanteaus which could now no more be got in at the door, not to say stowed away, than a giraffe could be persuaded or forced into a flower-pot ): that this utterly impracticable, thoroughly hopeless, and profoundly preposterous box, had the remotest reference to, or [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] sailor of seven hours ’ experience talks of going to bed—became the order of the night. The perpetual tramp of boot-heels on the decks gave place to a heavy silence, and the whole human freight was stowed away below, excepting a very few stragglers, like myself, who were probably, like me, afraid to go there.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] piece of advice he very indignantly rejected: saying, ‘He 'd be damned but for once he 'd go aboard ship, as a gentleman. ’ Accordingly, they took his money, but he no sooner came aboard, than he stowed his kit in the forecastle, arranged to mess with the crew, and the very first time the hands were turned up, went aloft like a cat, before anybody. And all through the passage there he was, first [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In the wagon was seated Simon Legree and the two women, still fettered together, were stowed away with some baggage in the back part of it, and the whole company were seeking Legree's plantation, which lay a good distance off.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)