Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to silk
Participle: silked
Gerund: silking
Indicative
Present
| I | silk |
| you | silk |
| he;she;it | silks |
| we | silk |
| you | silk |
| they | silk |
Perfect
| I | have silked |
| you | have silked |
| he;she;it | has silked |
| we | have silked |
| you | have silked |
| they | have silked |
Past
| I | silked |
| you | silked |
| he;she;it | silked |
| we | silked |
| you | silked |
| they | silked |
Pluperfect
| I | had silked |
| you | had silked |
| he;she;it | had silked |
| we | had silked |
| you | had silked |
| they | had silked |
Future
| I | will silk |
| you | will silk |
| he;she;it | will silk |
| we | will silk |
| you | will silk |
| they | will silk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have silked |
| you | will have silked |
| he;she;it | will have silked |
| we | will have silked |
| you | will have silked |
| they | will have silked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | silk |
| you | silk |
| he;she;it | silk |
| we | silk |
| you | silk |
| they | silk |
Perfect
| I | have silked |
| you | have silked |
| he;she;it | have silked |
| we | have silked |
| you | have silked |
| they | have silked |
Imperfect
| I | silked |
| you | silked |
| he;she;it | silked |
| we | silked |
| you | silked |
| they | silked |
Pluperfect
| I | had silked |
| you | had silked |
| he;she;it | had silked |
| we | had silked |
| you | had silked |
| they | had silked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would silk |
| you | would silk |
| he;she;it | would silk |
| we | would silk |
| you | would silk |
| they | would silk |
Perfect
| I | would have silked |
| you | would have silked |
| he;she;it | would have silked |
| we | would have silked |
| you | would have silked |
| they | would have silked |
Imperative
| you | silk |
| we | Let's silk |
| you | silk |
Verbs conjugated like 'silk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'silk'
bilk,
filk,
milk,
sick,
sile,
silo,
silt,
sink,
sulk,
aik,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”). The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki (> Danish silke, Swedish silke (“silk”)), Russian шёлк (šolk), obsolete Lithuanian zilkai̇̃), all ultimately from Late Latin sēricus, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós), ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”)). Displaced Old English sīde (“silk”). Compare Seres. Doublet of seric and serge. See: Danish '
silke', Swedish '
silke'.
Sample Sentences
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While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes […] [2013, Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came, page 17:]