Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to silken
Participle: silkened
Gerund: silkening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | silken |
| you | silken |
| he;she;it | silkens |
| we | silken |
| you | silken |
| they | silken |
Perfect
| I | have silkened |
| you | have silkened |
| he;she;it | has silkened |
| we | have silkened |
| you | have silkened |
| they | have silkened |
Past
| I | silkened |
| you | silkened |
| he;she;it | silkened |
| we | silkened |
| you | silkened |
| they | silkened |
Pluperfect
| I | had silkened |
| you | had silkened |
| he;she;it | had silkened |
| we | had silkened |
| you | had silkened |
| they | had silkened |
Future
| I | will silken |
| you | will silken |
| he;she;it | will silken |
| we | will silken |
| you | will silken |
| they | will silken |
Future Perfect
| I | will have silkened |
| you | will have silkened |
| he;she;it | will have silkened |
| we | will have silkened |
| you | will have silkened |
| they | will have silkened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | silken |
| you | silken |
| he;she;it | silken |
| we | silken |
| you | silken |
| they | silken |
Perfect
| I | have silkened |
| you | have silkened |
| he;she;it | have silkened |
| we | have silkened |
| you | have silkened |
| they | have silkened |
Imperfect
| I | silkened |
| you | silkened |
| he;she;it | silkened |
| we | silkened |
| you | silkened |
| they | silkened |
Pluperfect
| I | had silkened |
| you | had silkened |
| he;she;it | had silkened |
| we | had silkened |
| you | had silkened |
| they | had silkened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would silken |
| you | would silken |
| he;she;it | would silken |
| we | would silken |
| you | would silken |
| they | would silken |
Perfect
| I | would have silkened |
| you | would have silkened |
| he;she;it | would have silkened |
| we | would have silkened |
| you | would have silkened |
| they | would have silkened |
Imperative
| you | silken |
| we | Let's silken |
| you | silken |
Verbs conjugated like 'silken'
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 'silken'
sicken,
birken,
bulken,
gilden,
liken,
milden,
mirken,
misken,
pinken,
salten,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, from seolc (“silk”) + -en, from an unattested early Proto-West Germanic borrowing from Latin sēricum, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). Equivalent to silk + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).
Sample Sentences
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silkening body lotion
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Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed,
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Nightly to house them dry on fern or straw,
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Silk’ning their fleeces. [1757, John Dyer, The Fleece, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Book I, lines 492-494, p. 30:]
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[…] these lights silkened her black skin: [1987, Derek Walcott, “The Light of the World”, in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 48:]