Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dike
Participle: diked
Gerund: diking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dike |
| you | dike |
| he;she;it | dikes |
| we | dike |
| you | dike |
| they | dike |
Perfect
| I | have diked |
| you | have diked |
| he;she;it | has diked |
| we | have diked |
| you | have diked |
| they | have diked |
Past
| I | diked |
| you | diked |
| he;she;it | diked |
| we | diked |
| you | diked |
| they | diked |
Pluperfect
| I | had diked |
| you | had diked |
| he;she;it | had diked |
| we | had diked |
| you | had diked |
| they | had diked |
Future
| I | will dike |
| you | will dike |
| he;she;it | will dike |
| we | will dike |
| you | will dike |
| they | will dike |
Future Perfect
| I | will have diked |
| you | will have diked |
| he;she;it | will have diked |
| we | will have diked |
| you | will have diked |
| they | will have diked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dike |
| you | dike |
| he;she;it | dike |
| we | dike |
| you | dike |
| they | dike |
Perfect
| I | have diked |
| you | have diked |
| he;she;it | have diked |
| we | have diked |
| you | have diked |
| they | have diked |
Imperfect
| I | diked |
| you | diked |
| he;she;it | diked |
| we | diked |
| you | diked |
| they | diked |
Pluperfect
| I | had diked |
| you | had diked |
| he;she;it | had diked |
| we | had diked |
| you | had diked |
| they | had diked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dike |
| you | would dike |
| he;she;it | would dike |
| we | would dike |
| you | would dike |
| they | would dike |
Perfect
| I | would have diked |
| you | would have diked |
| he;she;it | would have diked |
| we | would have diked |
| you | would have diked |
| they | would have diked |
Imperative
| you | dike |
| we | Let's dike |
| you | dike |
Verbs conjugated like 'dike'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dike'
bike,
deke,
dice,
die,
dime,
dine,
dite,
dive,
dize,
duke,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. dic "trench, ditch," from P.Gmc. *dik- (cf. O.N. diki, Du. dijk, Ger. Deich), from PIE base *dheigw- "to pierce, fasten" (cf. Skt. dehi- "wall," O.Pers. dida "wall, stronghold, fortress," Pers. diz). At first "an excavation," later (1487) applied to the resulting earth mound; a sense development paralleled by cognate forms in many other languages. This is the northern variant of the word, which in the south of England yielded ditch.
2. From Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also ditch.
Sample Sentences
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Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acre diked airport east of 55th Street, slash-and-bulldoze highway projects through Jackson and Lincoln parks—these and many another grandiose project leapt from the sketchbooks of city planners. [1996 September 27, Michael Miner, “WVON Won't Take the Bait”, in The Chicago Reader:]
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In 1983, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decreed that the Romanian Danube delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands, be diked for growing rice and maize. [2001 November 16, Karen F. Schmidt, “Ecology: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube”, in Science, volume 294, number 5546, →DOI, pages 1444–1447:]