Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to switchback
Participle: switchbacked
Gerund: switchbacking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | switchback |
| you | switchback |
| he;she;it | switchbacks |
| we | switchback |
| you | switchback |
| they | switchback |
Perfect
| I | have switchbacked |
| you | have switchbacked |
| he;she;it | has switchbacked |
| we | have switchbacked |
| you | have switchbacked |
| they | have switchbacked |
Past
| I | switchbacked |
| you | switchbacked |
| he;she;it | switchbacked |
| we | switchbacked |
| you | switchbacked |
| they | switchbacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had switchbacked |
| you | had switchbacked |
| he;she;it | had switchbacked |
| we | had switchbacked |
| you | had switchbacked |
| they | had switchbacked |
Future
| I | will switchback |
| you | will switchback |
| he;she;it | will switchback |
| we | will switchback |
| you | will switchback |
| they | will switchback |
Future Perfect
| I | will have switchbacked |
| you | will have switchbacked |
| he;she;it | will have switchbacked |
| we | will have switchbacked |
| you | will have switchbacked |
| they | will have switchbacked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | switchback |
| you | switchback |
| he;she;it | switchback |
| we | switchback |
| you | switchback |
| they | switchback |
Perfect
| I | have switchbacked |
| you | have switchbacked |
| he;she;it | have switchbacked |
| we | have switchbacked |
| you | have switchbacked |
| they | have switchbacked |
Imperfect
| I | switchbacked |
| you | switchbacked |
| he;she;it | switchbacked |
| we | switchbacked |
| you | switchbacked |
| they | switchbacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had switchbacked |
| you | had switchbacked |
| he;she;it | had switchbacked |
| we | had switchbacked |
| you | had switchbacked |
| they | had switchbacked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would switchback |
| you | would switchback |
| he;she;it | would switchback |
| we | would switchback |
| you | would switchback |
| they | would switchback |
Perfect
| I | would have switchbacked |
| you | would have switchbacked |
| he;she;it | would have switchbacked |
| we | would have switchbacked |
| you | would have switchbacked |
| they | would have switchbacked |
Imperative
| you | switchback |
| we | Let's switchback |
| you | switchback |
Verbs conjugated like 'switchback'
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 'switchback'
spitchcock,
switchblade,
spatchcock,
switch,
switch-blade,
switch-hit,
switcheroo,
bethwack,
buttcheck,
chack,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from switch (“to turn (a train) from one railway track to another using a switch”, verb) + back (“so as to reverse direction and return”, adverb).
2. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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I climbed 6,683-foot Velka Svistovka, not the highest mountain in the Tatras but arguably the one with the best view. I started from Zelene pleso chata (pleso means "lake" and chata means "hut" in Slovak), and right after turning the first corner I started switchbacking. [2015 June 25, John Henderson, “A secret range of stunning mountains? Hikers, meet Slovakia’s High Tatras”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2021:]