Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to smoke
Participle: smoked
Gerund: smoking
Indicative
Present
| I | smoke |
| you | smoke |
| he;she;it | smokes |
| we | smoke |
| you | smoke |
| they | smoke |
Perfect
| I | have smoked |
| you | have smoked |
| he;she;it | has smoked |
| we | have smoked |
| you | have smoked |
| they | have smoked |
Past
| I | smoked |
| you | smoked |
| he;she;it | smoked |
| we | smoked |
| you | smoked |
| they | smoked |
Pluperfect
| I | had smoked |
| you | had smoked |
| he;she;it | had smoked |
| we | had smoked |
| you | had smoked |
| they | had smoked |
Future
| I | will smoke |
| you | will smoke |
| he;she;it | will smoke |
| we | will smoke |
| you | will smoke |
| they | will smoke |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smoked |
| you | will have smoked |
| he;she;it | will have smoked |
| we | will have smoked |
| you | will have smoked |
| they | will have smoked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | smoke |
| you | smoke |
| he;she;it | smoke |
| we | smoke |
| you | smoke |
| they | smoke |
Perfect
| I | have smoked |
| you | have smoked |
| he;she;it | have smoked |
| we | have smoked |
| you | have smoked |
| they | have smoked |
Imperfect
| I | smoked |
| you | smoked |
| he;she;it | smoked |
| we | smoked |
| you | smoked |
| they | smoked |
Pluperfect
| I | had smoked |
| you | had smoked |
| he;she;it | had smoked |
| we | had smoked |
| you | had smoked |
| they | had smoked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would smoke |
| you | would smoke |
| he;she;it | would smoke |
| we | would smoke |
| you | would smoke |
| they | would smoke |
Perfect
| I | would have smoked |
| you | would have smoked |
| he;she;it | would have smoked |
| we | would have smoked |
| you | would have smoked |
| they | would have smoked |
Imperative
| you | smoke |
| we | Let's smoke |
| you | smoke |
Verbs conjugated like 'smoke'
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 'smoke'
shmoke,
smake,
smoken,
smore,
spoke,
stoke,
amove,
avoke,
besmoke,
boke,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1. late O.E.
smoca, related to
smeocan "give off smoke," from P.Gmc.
*smeukanan (cf. M.Du.
smooc, Du.
smook, M.H.G.
smouch, Ger.
Schmauch), from PIE base
*smeug(h)- "to smoke" (cf. Arm.
mux "smoke," Gk.
smykhein "to burn with smoldering flame," O.Ir.
much, Welsh
mwg "smoke").
Smokestack is from 1862;
smoke-eater "firefighter" is c.1930. Phrase
go up in smoke "be destroyed" is from 1933.
smoke alarm first attested 1936.
2. From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, to emit smoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Dutch smoken (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English smēocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”). See: Old English '
smocian', Frisian, Saterlandic 'smookje', Dutch '
smoken', Low Saxon 'smöken'.
Verbs referencing "smoke"
Sranan
smoko, Greek
καπνίζω, Welsh
ysmygu, German, Pennsylvania
schmoke, Thai
โม้ก.
Sample Sentences
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But we are made fast alongside the packet, whose huge red funnel is smoking bravely, giving rich promise of serious intentions. Packing-cases, portmanteaus, carpet-bags, and boxes, are already passed from hand to hand, and hauled on board with breathless rapidity. The [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] alternately. At one, a bell rings, and the stewardess comes down with a steaming dish of baked potatoes, and another of roasted apples; and plates of pig 's face, cold ham, salt beef; or perhaps a smoking mess of rare hot collops. We fall to upon these dainties; eat as much as we can (we have great appetites now ); and are as long as possible about it. If the fire will burn (it will [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The bar is a large room with a stone floor, and there people stand and smoke, and lounge about, all the evening: dropping in and out as the humour takes them. There too the stranger is initiated into the mysteries of Gin-sling, Cock-tail, Sangaree, Mint Julep, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] neck-or-nothing, down the middle of the road. There—with mechanics working at their trades, and people leaning from their doors and windows, and boys flying kites and playing marbles, and men smoking, and women talking, and children crawling, and pigs burrowing, and unaccustomed horses plunging and rearing, close to the very rails—there—on, on, on—tears the mad dragon of an engine with its train [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ’ em ? Don't dey tear wife and husband apart ? ” said Aunt Chloe, beginning to cry, “ when it's jest takin ’ the very life on ’ em ? — and all the while does they feel one bit, don't dey drink and smoke, and take it oncommon easy ? Lor, if the devil don't get them, what's he good for ? ” And Aunt Chloe covered her face with her checked apron, and began to sob in good earnest.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The simple morning meal now smoked on the table, for Mrs. Shelby had excused Aunt Chloe's attendance at the great house that morning. The poor soul had expended all her little energies on this farewell feast,—had killed and dressed [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] his name ? — ‘and ’ t would all have come right. ’ ” And the stranger, who was no other than the honest drover whom we introduced to our readers in the Kentucky tavern, sat down, and began smoking, with a curious smile on his long, dry face.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Wal, it seems quite _as_ plain a text, stranger, ” said John the drover, “ to poor fellows like us, now; ” and John smoked on like a volcano.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The boat swept proudly away from the shore, and all went on merrily, as before. Men talked, and loafed, and read, and smoked. Women sewed, and children played, and the boat passed on her way.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Haley nodded, and smoked on. “ Plantation hand ? ” said the man.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)