Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to skirmish
Participle: skirmished
Gerund: skirmishing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | skirmish |
| you | skirmish |
| he;she;it | skirmishes |
| we | skirmish |
| you | skirmish |
| they | skirmish |
Perfect
| I | have skirmished |
| you | have skirmished |
| he;she;it | has skirmished |
| we | have skirmished |
| you | have skirmished |
| they | have skirmished |
Past
| I | skirmished |
| you | skirmished |
| he;she;it | skirmished |
| we | skirmished |
| you | skirmished |
| they | skirmished |
Pluperfect
| I | had skirmished |
| you | had skirmished |
| he;she;it | had skirmished |
| we | had skirmished |
| you | had skirmished |
| they | had skirmished |
Future
| I | will skirmish |
| you | will skirmish |
| he;she;it | will skirmish |
| we | will skirmish |
| you | will skirmish |
| they | will skirmish |
Future Perfect
| I | will have skirmished |
| you | will have skirmished |
| he;she;it | will have skirmished |
| we | will have skirmished |
| you | will have skirmished |
| they | will have skirmished |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | skirmish |
| you | skirmish |
| he;she;it | skirmish |
| we | skirmish |
| you | skirmish |
| they | skirmish |
Perfect
| I | have skirmished |
| you | have skirmished |
| he;she;it | have skirmished |
| we | have skirmished |
| you | have skirmished |
| they | have skirmished |
Imperfect
| I | skirmished |
| you | skirmished |
| he;she;it | skirmished |
| we | skirmished |
| you | skirmished |
| they | skirmished |
Pluperfect
| I | had skirmished |
| you | had skirmished |
| he;she;it | had skirmished |
| we | had skirmished |
| you | had skirmished |
| they | had skirmished |
Conditional
Present
| I | would skirmish |
| you | would skirmish |
| he;she;it | would skirmish |
| we | would skirmish |
| you | would skirmish |
| they | would skirmish |
Perfect
| I | would have skirmished |
| you | would have skirmished |
| he;she;it | would have skirmished |
| we | would have skirmished |
| you | would have skirmished |
| they | would have skirmished |
Imperative
| you | skirmish |
| we | Let's skirmish |
| you | skirmish |
Verbs conjugated like 'skirmish'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'skirmish'
starfish,
surmise,
affamish,
airdash,
blemish,
burnish,
cherish,
dammish,
dismiss,
enfamish,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English skirmish (as a verb), from Old French escarmouche (“skirmish”), from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio. Doublet of escarmouche, Scaramouche, and Scaramucci.
Verbs referencing "skirmish"
Spanish
esgrimir, Spanish
escaramuzar.
Sample Sentences
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The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge. [1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:]
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Other historians might also remark that […] they have persisted all this time, constantly wrestling and skirmishing and yet never destroying themselves. [2019, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin, Macmillan, page 376:]