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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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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..

Participially :: Participially (adv.) In the sense or manner of a participle.

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..

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..

Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle..

Gerundive :: Gerundive (n.) The future passive participle; as, amandus, i. e., to be loved..

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

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..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.

Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done..

Seeing :: Seeing (conj. (but originally a present participle)) In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young..

More :: More (adv.) With a verb or participle.

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

Forego :: Forego (v. i.) To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.

#NAME? :: -en () The termination of the past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden..

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

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

Distract :: Distract (v. t.) To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted..

Befog :: Befog (v. t.) To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.

#NAME? :: -ing () A suffix used to from present participles; as, singing, playing..