Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to skive
Participle: skived
Gerund: skiving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | skive |
| you | skive |
| he;she;it | skives |
| we | skive |
| you | skive |
| they | skive |
Perfect
| I | have skived |
| you | have skived |
| he;she;it | has skived |
| we | have skived |
| you | have skived |
| they | have skived |
Past
| I | skived |
| you | skived |
| he;she;it | skived |
| we | skived |
| you | skived |
| they | skived |
Pluperfect
| I | had skived |
| you | had skived |
| he;she;it | had skived |
| we | had skived |
| you | had skived |
| they | had skived |
Future
| I | will skive |
| you | will skive |
| he;she;it | will skive |
| we | will skive |
| you | will skive |
| they | will skive |
Future Perfect
| I | will have skived |
| you | will have skived |
| he;she;it | will have skived |
| we | will have skived |
| you | will have skived |
| they | will have skived |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | skive |
| you | skive |
| he;she;it | skive |
| we | skive |
| you | skive |
| they | skive |
Perfect
| I | have skived |
| you | have skived |
| he;she;it | have skived |
| we | have skived |
| you | have skived |
| they | have skived |
Imperfect
| I | skived |
| you | skived |
| he;she;it | skived |
| we | skived |
| you | skived |
| they | skived |
Pluperfect
| I | had skived |
| you | had skived |
| he;she;it | had skived |
| we | had skived |
| you | had skived |
| they | had skived |
Conditional
Present
| I | would skive |
| you | would skive |
| he;she;it | would skive |
| we | would skive |
| you | would skive |
| they | would skive |
Perfect
| I | would have skived |
| you | would have skived |
| he;she;it | would have skived |
| we | would have skived |
| you | would have skived |
| they | would have skived |
Imperative
| you | skive |
| we | Let's skive |
| you | skive |
Verbs conjugated like 'skive'
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 'skive'
skite,
skiver,
slive,
snive,
stive,
swive,
bive,
chive,
clive,
dive,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”), from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), from esquivo (“contemptuous, loathsome”), itself from Old French eschiver, of East Germanic origin, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 (*skiuhs, “afraid, barefaced”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“afraid, frightened”). Cognate with English shy, eschew. See: French '
esquiver', Spanish '
esquivar', Old French '
eschiver', English '
shy'.
Verbs referencing "skive"
Welsh
sgeifio.
Sample Sentences
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Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older. [2006, The Economist, Young offenders: Arrested development:]
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Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If there's nowhere suitable to hide, all you need is a vacant computer and you can chat to your skiving associate in the building next door. [2007 April 30, Jon Bentham, “How to...... do work experience”, in The Guardian:]