umpire
verb/ˈʌmpaɪə(r)/
/ˈʌmpaɪər/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they umpire | /ˈʌmpaɪə(r)/ /ˈʌmpaɪər/ |
| he / she / it umpires | /ˈʌmpaɪəz/ /ˈʌmpaɪərz/ |
| past simple umpired | /ˈʌmpaɪəd/ /ˈʌmpaɪərd/ |
| past participle umpired | /ˈʌmpaɪəd/ /ˈʌmpaɪərd/ |
| -ing form umpiring | /ˈʌmpaɪərɪŋ/ /ˈʌmpaɪərɪŋ/ |
- to act as an umpire
- We need someone to umpire.
- umpire something to umpire a game of baseball
Word Originlate Middle English (originally as noumpere) (denoting an arbitrator): from Old French nonper ‘not equal’. The n was lost by wrong division of a noumpere; compare with adder.
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