Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to skunk
Participle: skunked
Gerund: skunking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | skunk |
| you | skunk |
| he;she;it | skunks |
| we | skunk |
| you | skunk |
| they | skunk |
Perfect
| I | have skunked |
| you | have skunked |
| he;she;it | has skunked |
| we | have skunked |
| you | have skunked |
| they | have skunked |
Past
| I | skunked |
| you | skunked |
| he;she;it | skunked |
| we | skunked |
| you | skunked |
| they | skunked |
Pluperfect
| I | had skunked |
| you | had skunked |
| he;she;it | had skunked |
| we | had skunked |
| you | had skunked |
| they | had skunked |
Future
| I | will skunk |
| you | will skunk |
| he;she;it | will skunk |
| we | will skunk |
| you | will skunk |
| they | will skunk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have skunked |
| you | will have skunked |
| he;she;it | will have skunked |
| we | will have skunked |
| you | will have skunked |
| they | will have skunked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | skunk |
| you | skunk |
| he;she;it | skunk |
| we | skunk |
| you | skunk |
| they | skunk |
Perfect
| I | have skunked |
| you | have skunked |
| he;she;it | have skunked |
| we | have skunked |
| you | have skunked |
| they | have skunked |
Imperfect
| I | skunked |
| you | skunked |
| he;she;it | skunked |
| we | skunked |
| you | skunked |
| they | skunked |
Pluperfect
| I | had skunked |
| you | had skunked |
| he;she;it | had skunked |
| we | had skunked |
| you | had skunked |
| they | had skunked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would skunk |
| you | would skunk |
| he;she;it | would skunk |
| we | would skunk |
| you | would skunk |
| they | would skunk |
Perfect
| I | would have skunked |
| you | would have skunked |
| he;she;it | would have skunked |
| we | would have skunked |
| you | would have skunked |
| they | would have skunked |
Imperative
| you | skunk |
| we | Let's skunk |
| you | skunk |
Verbs conjugated like 'skunk'
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 'skunk'
skank,
skink,
skulk,
spunk,
bunk,
chunk,
clunk,
crunk,
dunk,
flunk,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from an unattested Southern New England Eastern Algonquian word cognate with Abenaki segôgw (literally “he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”). Doublet of Chicago.
Sample Sentences
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"Yeah, Nolan tried to skunk me. Malcolm's making him clean up the pit right now,” said Simon, heading over to his dresser.
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“That explains the smell,” muttered the mouse. “You need a shower.” [2017 February 7, Aimée Carter, Simon Thorn and the Viper's Pit, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 11:]
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"While the two of them were having the time of their lives running around the park and doing whatever else they may have been doing, Walter must have been showing off for that poodle, and he got himself skunked."
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"Are you telling me as skunk sprayed him?" [2024 February 1, Donny Friedman, Finding Kathleen, iUniverse, →ISBN:]
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Two girls help me to my feet, hug me, skunking me with perfume. [2024 May 16, Tim Booth, When I Died for the First Time, Hachette UK, →ISBN:]
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I skunked him at cards.
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We fished all day but the lake skunked us.