MEANING
1. To sing with a flowing succession of changing notes or trills, especially of birds.
2. A swelling beneath an animal’s skin caused by a developing warble-fly larva.
3. A larva of a warble fly developing as a parasite in an animal’s skin.
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Words that belong together
- a bird warbles
- warble a tune
On the page
A bird warbled beyond the shutters before the household stirred.
He warbled the tune softly as he repaired the strap.
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Word forms
- Base
- warble
- Past tense
- warbled
- Past participle
- warbled
- Present participle
- warbling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- warble
- Present continuous
- am/is/are warbling
- Present perfect
- have/has warbled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been warbling
- Past
- warbled
- Past continuous
- was/were warbling
- Past perfect
- had warbled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been warbling
- Future
- will warble
- Future continuous
- will be warbling
- Future perfect
- will have warbled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been warbling
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Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: warble; warbles; warbled; warbled; warbling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: warbles.
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