Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to veil
Participle: veiled
Gerund: veiling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | veil |
| you | veil |
| he;she;it | veils |
| we | veil |
| you | veil |
| they | veil |
Perfect
| I | have veiled |
| you | have veiled |
| he;she;it | has veiled |
| we | have veiled |
| you | have veiled |
| they | have veiled |
Past
| I | veiled |
| you | veiled |
| he;she;it | veiled |
| we | veiled |
| you | veiled |
| they | veiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had veiled |
| you | had veiled |
| he;she;it | had veiled |
| we | had veiled |
| you | had veiled |
| they | had veiled |
Future
| I | will veil |
| you | will veil |
| he;she;it | will veil |
| we | will veil |
| you | will veil |
| they | will veil |
Future Perfect
| I | will have veiled |
| you | will have veiled |
| he;she;it | will have veiled |
| we | will have veiled |
| you | will have veiled |
| they | will have veiled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | veil |
| you | veil |
| he;she;it | veil |
| we | veil |
| you | veil |
| they | veil |
Perfect
| I | have veiled |
| you | have veiled |
| he;she;it | have veiled |
| we | have veiled |
| you | have veiled |
| they | have veiled |
Imperfect
| I | veiled |
| you | veiled |
| he;she;it | veiled |
| we | veiled |
| you | veiled |
| they | veiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had veiled |
| you | had veiled |
| he;she;it | had veiled |
| we | had veiled |
| you | had veiled |
| they | had veiled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would veil |
| you | would veil |
| he;she;it | would veil |
| we | would veil |
| you | would veil |
| they | would veil |
Perfect
| I | would have veiled |
| you | would have veiled |
| he;she;it | would have veiled |
| we | would have veiled |
| you | would have veiled |
| they | would have veiled |
Imperative
| you | veil |
| we | Let's veil |
| you | veil |
Verbs conjugated like 'veil'
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 'veil'
ceil,
heil,
vail,
veel,
vein,
vell,
ail,
avail,
avel,
bail,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1225, from Anglo-Fr. and O.N.Fr.
veil (O.Fr.
voile) "a head-covering," also "a sail," from L.
vela, pl. of
velum "sail, curtain, covering," from PIE base
*weg- "to weave."
Vela was mistaken in V.L. for a fem. sing. noun. The verb (1382) is from O.Fr.
veler, voiller,, from L.
velare "to cover, veil," from
velum. Fig. sense of "to conceal" (something immaterial) is recorded from 1538. To
take the veil "become a nun" is attested from c.1325.
2. From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.
Verbs referencing "veil"
English
reveal.
Sample Sentences
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[...] from some sense of renewed hope and gladness; but the light shining on the dreary waste of water, and showing it in all its vast extent of loneliness, presents a solemn spectacle, which even night, veiling it in darkness and uncertainty, does not surpass. The rising of the moon is more in keeping with the solitary ocean; and has an air of melancholy grandeur, which in its soft and gentle influence, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] dreamed. In his heavy and feverish sleep, a veiled form stood beside him, and laid a cold, soft hand upon him. He thought he knew who it was; and shuddered, with creeping horror, though the face was veiled. Then he thought he felt _that hair_ twining round his fingers; and then, that it slid smoothly round his neck, and tightened and tightened, and he could not draw his breath; and then he thought [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] frightful abyss, holding on and struggling in mortal fear, while dark hands stretched up, and were pulling him over; and Cassy came behind him laughing, and pushed him. And then rose up that solemn veiled figure, and drew aside the veil. It was his mother; and she turned away from him, and he fell down, down, down, amid a confused noise of shrieks, and groans, and shouts of demon laughter,—and Legree [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)