Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to snake
Participle: snaked
Gerund: snaking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | snake |
| you | snake |
| he;she;it | snakes |
| we | snake |
| you | snake |
| they | snake |
Perfect
| I | have snaked |
| you | have snaked |
| he;she;it | has snaked |
| we | have snaked |
| you | have snaked |
| they | have snaked |
Past
| I | snaked |
| you | snaked |
| he;she;it | snaked |
| we | snaked |
| you | snaked |
| they | snaked |
Pluperfect
| I | had snaked |
| you | had snaked |
| he;she;it | had snaked |
| we | had snaked |
| you | had snaked |
| they | had snaked |
Future
| I | will snake |
| you | will snake |
| he;she;it | will snake |
| we | will snake |
| you | will snake |
| they | will snake |
Future Perfect
| I | will have snaked |
| you | will have snaked |
| he;she;it | will have snaked |
| we | will have snaked |
| you | will have snaked |
| they | will have snaked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | snake |
| you | snake |
| he;she;it | snake |
| we | snake |
| you | snake |
| they | snake |
Perfect
| I | have snaked |
| you | have snaked |
| he;she;it | have snaked |
| we | have snaked |
| you | have snaked |
| they | have snaked |
Imperfect
| I | snaked |
| you | snaked |
| he;she;it | snaked |
| we | snaked |
| you | snaked |
| they | snaked |
Pluperfect
| I | had snaked |
| you | had snaked |
| he;she;it | had snaked |
| we | had snaked |
| you | had snaked |
| they | had snaked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would snake |
| you | would snake |
| he;she;it | would snake |
| we | would snake |
| you | would snake |
| they | would snake |
Perfect
| I | would have snaked |
| you | would have snaked |
| he;she;it | would have snaked |
| we | would have snaked |
| you | would have snaked |
| they | would have snaked |
Imperative
| you | snake |
| we | Let's snake |
| you | snake |
Verbs conjugated like 'snake'
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 'snake'
nake,
shake,
slake,
smake,
snape,
snare,
stake,
aslake,
atake,
awake,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”).
2. Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”). See: Old High German 'snahhan'.
Sample Sentences
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The path snaked through the forest.
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The river snakes through the valley.
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Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen? [1996 September 24, Mark Addinall, “Football fever...”, in aus.personals (Usenet):]
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=Every summer brought the prospect of the dragonships snaking their way upriver, each vessel filled with thirty or more rapacious thugs. [1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 77:]
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Opened in June of that year [1880], the station was the southern terminus of the much-lamented Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (the S&D or 'Slow and Dirty'), which snaked its way down from Bath. [2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 59–60:]
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He snaked my DVD!
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Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier.[…]Someone already has :)[…]F*CK ME !! Snaked again ! [2001 April 5, Hyena, “Home made supercharger ?”, in aus.cars (Usenet):]
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November 27 1835, N.B. St. John, letter to George Thompson
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his wife and children shall not be forced to flee from the hearth of a friend, lest they should be snaked out by men in civic authority
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He says he didn't snake and I believe him.
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Snaking is the number one way to get hurt and/or get rejected by existing scenes at your local skatepark or street spot. [2026 May 5 (last accessed), “Skate Etiquette | Sidewalk Basics”, in Sidewalk Magazine, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2026:]