Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spot
Participle: spotted
Gerund: spotting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | spot |
| you | spot |
| he;she;it | spots |
| we | spot |
| you | spot |
| they | spot |
Perfect
| I | have spotted |
| you | have spotted |
| he;she;it | has spotted |
| we | have spotted |
| you | have spotted |
| they | have spotted |
Past
| I | spotted |
| you | spotted |
| he;she;it | spotted |
| we | spotted |
| you | spotted |
| they | spotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had spotted |
| you | had spotted |
| he;she;it | had spotted |
| we | had spotted |
| you | had spotted |
| they | had spotted |
Future
| I | will spot |
| you | will spot |
| he;she;it | will spot |
| we | will spot |
| you | will spot |
| they | will spot |
Future Perfect
| I | will have spotted |
| you | will have spotted |
| he;she;it | will have spotted |
| we | will have spotted |
| you | will have spotted |
| they | will have spotted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spot |
| you | spot |
| he;she;it | spot |
| we | spot |
| you | spot |
| they | spot |
Perfect
| I | have spotted |
| you | have spotted |
| he;she;it | have spotted |
| we | have spotted |
| you | have spotted |
| they | have spotted |
Imperfect
| I | spotted |
| you | spotted |
| he;she;it | spotted |
| we | spotted |
| you | spotted |
| they | spotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had spotted |
| you | had spotted |
| he;she;it | had spotted |
| we | had spotted |
| you | had spotted |
| they | had spotted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spot |
| you | would spot |
| he;she;it | would spot |
| we | would spot |
| you | would spot |
| they | would spot |
Perfect
| I | would have spotted |
| you | would have spotted |
| he;she;it | would have spotted |
| we | would have spotted |
| you | would have spotted |
| they | would have spotted |
Imperative
| you | spot |
| we | Let's spot |
| you | spot |
Verbs conjugated like 'spot'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'spot'
pot,
shot,
slot,
snot,
soot,
sot,
spat,
spet,
spit,
spod,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind
- discern
- to make physically dirty
- assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, bedizen, befile, befoul, begrime, beray, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, contaminate, darken, denigrate, dirty, drag through the mud, dull, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, pollute, sling mud, slotter, slur, smutch, soss, sowl, stain, sullow, taint, tarnish, uggle
- to catch sight of something; to take notice (visually)
- catch sight of, clock, decern, descry, espy, goam, ken, make out, spy
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”).
2. Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.
Sample Sentences
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[...] to the young girl and lad of fifteen. A little harmless gossip ensued on various themes, such as where old Aunt Sally got her new red headkerchief, and how “ Missis was a going to give Lizzy that spotted muslin gown, when she'd got her new berage made up; ” and how Mas’r Shelby was thinking of buying a new sorrel colt, that was going to prove an addition to the glories of the place. A few of the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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They are the city scavengers, these pigs. Ugly brutes they are; having, for the most part, scanty brown backs, like the lids of old horsehair trunks: spotted with unwholesome black blotches. They have long, gaunt legs, too, and such peaked snouts, that if one of them could be persuaded to sit for his profile, nobody would recognise it for a pig 's [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)