Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wimple
Participle: wimpled
Gerund: wimpling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | wimple |
| you | wimple |
| he;she;it | wimples |
| we | wimple |
| you | wimple |
| they | wimple |
Perfect
| I | have wimpled |
| you | have wimpled |
| he;she;it | has wimpled |
| we | have wimpled |
| you | have wimpled |
| they | have wimpled |
Past
| I | wimpled |
| you | wimpled |
| he;she;it | wimpled |
| we | wimpled |
| you | wimpled |
| they | wimpled |
Pluperfect
| I | had wimpled |
| you | had wimpled |
| he;she;it | had wimpled |
| we | had wimpled |
| you | had wimpled |
| they | had wimpled |
Future
| I | will wimple |
| you | will wimple |
| he;she;it | will wimple |
| we | will wimple |
| you | will wimple |
| they | will wimple |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wimpled |
| you | will have wimpled |
| he;she;it | will have wimpled |
| we | will have wimpled |
| you | will have wimpled |
| they | will have wimpled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wimple |
| you | wimple |
| he;she;it | wimple |
| we | wimple |
| you | wimple |
| they | wimple |
Perfect
| I | have wimpled |
| you | have wimpled |
| he;she;it | have wimpled |
| we | have wimpled |
| you | have wimpled |
| they | have wimpled |
Imperfect
| I | wimpled |
| you | wimpled |
| he;she;it | wimpled |
| we | wimpled |
| you | wimpled |
| they | wimpled |
Pluperfect
| I | had wimpled |
| you | had wimpled |
| he;she;it | had wimpled |
| we | had wimpled |
| you | had wimpled |
| they | had wimpled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wimple |
| you | would wimple |
| he;she;it | would wimple |
| we | would wimple |
| you | would wimple |
| they | would wimple |
Perfect
| I | would have wimpled |
| you | would have wimpled |
| he;she;it | would have wimpled |
| we | would have wimpled |
| you | would have wimpled |
| they | would have wimpled |
Imperative
| you | wimple |
| we | Let's wimple |
| you | wimple |
Verbs conjugated like 'wimple'
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 'wimple'
dimple,
limple,
pimple,
rimple,
simple,
whimple,
wimble,
bewimple,
bimble,
cample,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English wimplen (“to cover, conceal; to fold, drape”). See: Middle English '
wimplen'.
Sample Sentences
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this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]
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IV A lovely Ladie[*] rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed in heart some hidden care she had, 35 And by her in a line a milke white lambe she lad. [1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:]
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The wind wimples the surface of water.
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[T]hoſe fair Straths that vvater’d are / VVith Tay and Tvveed’s ſmooth Streams, / VVhich gentily and daintily / Eat dovvn the flovvry Braes; / As greatly and quietly / They vvimple to the Seas. [1720, Allan Ramsay, “The Poet’s Wish: An Ode”, in Poems, Edinburgh: Printed for the author […] [and sold by T. Jauncy […]], →OCLC, page 359:]
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Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street. [1920, George Allan England, The Flying Legion:]
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She wimpled about in the pale moonbeam, Like a feather that floats on a wind tossed-stream; And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back, And the fluttering scallop behind would float, And patter the water about the boat; But he bailed her out with his colen-bell, And he kept her trimmed with a wary tread, While on every side like lightening fell [1836, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:]