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PRONUNCIATION OF CUDGELLING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUDGELLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cudgelling is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cudgelling in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CUDGELLING

PRESENT

Present
I cudgel
you cudgel
he/she/it cudgels
we cudgel
you cudgel
they cudgel
Present continuous
I am cudgelling
you are cudgelling
he/she/it is cudgelling
we are cudgelling
you are cudgelling
they are cudgelling
Present perfect
I have cudgelled
you have cudgelled
he/she/it has cudgelled
we have cudgelled
you have cudgelled
they have cudgelled
Present perfect continuous
I have been cudgelling
you have been cudgelling
he/she/it has been cudgelling
we have been cudgelling
you have been cudgelling
they have been cudgelling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I cudgelled
you cudgelled
he/she/it cudgelled
we cudgelled
you cudgelled
they cudgelled
Past continuous
I was cudgelling
you were cudgelling
he/she/it was cudgelling
we were cudgelling
you were cudgelling
they were cudgelling
Past perfect
I had cudgelled
you had cudgelled
he/she/it had cudgelled
we had cudgelled
you had cudgelled
they had cudgelled
Past perfect continuous
I had been cudgelling
you had been cudgelling
he/she/it had been cudgelling
we had been cudgelling
you had been cudgelling
they had been cudgelling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will cudgel
you will cudgel
he/she/it will cudgel
we will cudgel
you will cudgel
they will cudgel
Future continuous
I will be cudgelling
you will be cudgelling
he/she/it will be cudgelling
we will be cudgelling
you will be cudgelling
they will be cudgelling
Future perfect
I will have cudgelled
you will have cudgelled
he/she/it will have cudgelled
we will have cudgelled
you will have cudgelled
they will have cudgelled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been cudgelling
you will have been cudgelling
he/she/it will have been cudgelling
we will have been cudgelling
you will have been cudgelling
they will have been cudgelling
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would cudgelling
you would cudgelling
he/she/it would cudgelling
we would cudgelling
you would cudgelling
they would cudgelling
Conditional continuous
I would be cudgelling
you would be cudgelling
he/she/it would be cudgelling
we would be cudgelling
you would be cudgelling
they would be cudgelling
Conditional perfect
I would have cudgelling
you would have cudgelling
he/she/it would have cudgelling
we would have cudgelling
you would have cudgelling
they would have cudgelling
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been cudgelling
you would have been cudgelling
he/she/it would have been cudgelling
we would have been cudgelling
you would have been cudgelling
they would have been cudgelling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you cudgel
we let´s cudgel
you cudgel
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to cudgel
Past participle
cudgelled
Present Participle
cudgelling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUDGELLING

cudbear
cudden
cuddie
cuddies
cuddle
cuddle class
cuddler
cuddlesome
cuddly
cuddly toy
cuddy
cudgel
cudgel one´s brains
cudgeler
cudgelled
cudgeller
cudgellings
cudgerie
Cudlipp
cudweed

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUDGELLING

bestselling
billing
calling
chilling
controlling
direct selling
drilling
falling
feeling
filling
hot-selling
installing
killing
modelling
rolling
scrolling
selling
spelling
telling
travelling
willing

Synonyms and antonyms of cudgelling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CUDGELLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cudgelling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of cudgelling
bang · baste · bastinado · baton · batter · beat · bludgeon · cane · club · cosh · drub · mere · patu · pound · pummel · shillelagh · stick · thrash · thump · thwack · truncheon

Translation of «cudgelling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUDGELLING

Find out the translation of cudgelling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cudgelling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cudgelling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cudgelling
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

devanándome
570 millions of speakers

English

cudgelling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cudgelling
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cudgelling
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cudgelling
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cudgelling
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cudgelling
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bastonnade
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menggelegak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cudgelling
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cudgelling
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cudgelling
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cudgelling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cudgelling
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cudgelling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कडगेलिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cudgelling
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bastonate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cudgelling
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cudgelling
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cudgelling
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cudgelling
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cudgelling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cudgelling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cudgelling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cudgelling

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUDGELLING»

The term «cudgelling» is used very little and occupies the 180.001 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CUDGELLING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cudgelling» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cudgelling» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cudgelling

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUDGELLING»

Discover the use of cudgelling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cudgelling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports
Cudgelling was initially the leading sport, but it was slowly overtaken in popularity by singlestick and was rarely seen after 1800. From Tudor times until the eighteenth century, the wooden staff and cudgel were employed to teach the  ...
Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew, 2005
2
The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning ...
Single-stick and Cudgels. (To Mr. Hone.] I do not observe that you notice the yearlyvillage sports of Single-stick playing and Cudgelling, in your Yeur-Book. — You may know, perhaps, that the inhabitants of many of the villages in the western ...
William Hone, 1832
3
The Trial of Lieutenant Charles Bourne: Upon the Prosecution ...
A. Why, Sir, I was stunned for some time, : and by putting up my hand to my head, which saved my head, the blood returned and I recovered ; then I pressed on upon him, and the cudgelling began*, till we were separated by the mob. ij>.
Charles Bourne, Sir James Wallace, William Isaac Blanchard, 1783
4
New Italian and English Dictionary in Two Parts: With a New ...
1. to cudgel; reprove; criticise --- Ala,*/- beating; drubbing; cudgelling Bajitonato, - a, mi) cudgelled; drubbed Iiiitoi.a'd,ra, »/". bastinade; cudgelling V ailoncello, Bastoncfno. MIL small stick rasione, *m. baton ; stall'; club ; trunclieon t uloniere, tm.
F. C. Meadows, 1835
5
The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism & ...
cudgelling. to. you”: Sectional. Conflict. and. American. Nationality. Sabine's reappraisal of the loyalists backfired, however, as a vehicle for unity; his work actually had the opposite effect, provoking one of the key events in the sectional ...
Eileen K. Cheng, 2008
6
Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
Single-stick playing is so called to distinguish it from cudgelling, in which two sticks are used: the single-stick player having the left hand tied down, and us- ing only one stick both to defend himself and strike his antagonist. The object of each  ...
David Levinson, Karen Christensen, 1999
7
Wilson's Tales Series:
Hetalked nae mairo' wrestling, or cudgelling, or onything else that day. Isettled him for fourandtwenty hours at ony rate. Weel, sir, I was perfectly delighted when I saw you lay him onthe broado' his back yesterday; andI had nae mair words wi' ...
Alexander Leighton, 2013
8
A Dictionary of Sports Studies
Singlestick contests were, as the name says, a version of cudgelling based on use of just one staff, and, like cudgelling, revived in popularity after the Napoleonic wars, though the processes of urbanization and industrialization, along with ...
Alan Tomlinson, 2010
9
Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of ...
He talked nae mair 0' wrestling, or cudgelling, or ony thing else that day. I settled him for four and twenty hours at ony rate. Weel Sir, I was perfectly delighted when I saw you lay him on the broad 0' his back yesterday; and I saw nae mair 0' him ...
John Mackay Wilson, 1835
10
Wilson's Historical, traditionary, and imaginative tales of ...
He talked nae mair o' wrestling, or cudgelling, nr ony thing else that day. I settled him for four and twenty hours at ony rate. Weel Sir, I was perfectly delighted when I saw you lay him on the hroad o' his back yesterday ; and I saw nae mair o' ...
John Mackay Wilson, 1834

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUDGELLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cudgelling is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Burden sharing for bondholders has skipped the sovereign debt …
The IMF has decades of experience cudgelling uncooperative governments into making payments, through privatisations, austerity measures, ... «GlobalCapital, Jul 15»
2
Devo-fail Is the unionists' preferred option
Osborne's unfunded fantasy of an extra £8 billion for the NHS was treated with kid gloves compared to the cudgelling each and every SNP ... «Herald Scotland, Apr 15»
3
GRIMSBY BYGONES: Stepping back in time to 1875
... full pace, but as they are fresh at their work for the season progress is made at a pretty brisk rate without many mishaps, or much cudgelling. «Grimsby Telegraph, Mar 15»
4
New Zealand's Richie McCaw provides masterclass against England
Last weekend the Stateside razzmatazz; this the tier-one cudgelling. The All Blacks wanted to simulate a World Cup manoeuvre they have had ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
5
Q&A: Are UK cities prepared for another flooding disaster?
Like you, I am cudgelling my brains about it, and have been doing so for quite a long time! There are good works happening all around the UK, ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
6
Crisis as neither Barclays' nor UBS's M&A bankers perform. Curse of …
If you wanted to single out two banks which have really 'gone for it' in M&A this year whilst simultaneously cudgelling (or continuing to cudgel) ... «eFinancialCareers, Oct 14»
7
Towton: England's bloodiest battle
As they tried to run they were mown down by the Yorkist cavalry, who swept over the open ground, cudgelling and lancing their enemies with ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
8
Cookbook of the week: Recipes from a Normal Mum
A confidence-booster for a harassed mother, then, or a useful aide-memoire for those cudgelling their brains to think up fashionable food for ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
9
Griff Rhys Jones celebrates "rude and raging poet" Dylan Thomas
But most of all he was a serious, dedicated, hard working, pernickety, obsessive, word-cudgelling poet. When he went to New York they loved ... «Radio Times, May 14»
10
Unionists should beware a legacy of bitterness
... to be a positive long-term future for the UK then adopting a stance of simply cudgelling the Yes campaign's ideas represents little more than ... «Herald Scotland, Feb 14»

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