cohabit
verb (used without object)
to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
cohabited
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past participleof cohabit.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cohabit.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
cohabitverb (used without object)to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
Example Sentences
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Had I not just cohabited with “Ulysses” for the last month, I no doubt would have spent the intermission reading chapter summaries on my phone to get a deeper understanding of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
As in many of his buildings, he used the detail to violate the building’s overall system of control — the irrational cohabited with the rational.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Whatever common ground he cohabited with mortals like us was ceded sometime back in the mid-aughts after his third Super Bowl title in four years or his epochal 2007 campaign.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2020
You cohabited away the luxury of not wanting kids.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2020
To this he was induced chiefly by the company of one Woolford, who was executed, and at whose execution Smith was present, and soon after cohabited with his wife.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
