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Definition of participle

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Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..

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Participle :: Participle (a.) Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.

Strong :: Strong (superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak..

Organize :: Organize (v. t.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle..

Overtake :: Overtake (v. t.) Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken..

#NAME? :: -ed () The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented..

Sickly :: Sickly (v. t.) To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle..

First :: First (adv.) Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles..

Rocket :: Rocket (v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

Un- :: Un- (adv.) To present particles which come from intransitive verbs, or are themselves employed as adjectives, to mark the absence of the activity, disposition, or condition implied by the participle; as, - ---- and the like..

Indebt :: Indebt (v. t.) To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted.

Recollect :: Recollect (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle..

Ted :: Ted (v. t.) To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle..

Saving :: Saving (participle) With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to..

Disease :: Disease (v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.

Y- :: Y- () A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use..

Timber :: Timber (v. t.) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

Get :: Get (v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle..

Participial :: Participial (a.) Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun..

Root :: Root (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike..

Adverb :: Adverb (n.) A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white..