Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to yerk
Participle: yerked
Gerund: yerking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | yerk |
| you | yerk |
| he;she;it | yerks |
| we | yerk |
| you | yerk |
| they | yerk |
Perfect
| I | have yerked |
| you | have yerked |
| he;she;it | has yerked |
| we | have yerked |
| you | have yerked |
| they | have yerked |
Past
| I | yerked |
| you | yerked |
| he;she;it | yerked |
| we | yerked |
| you | yerked |
| they | yerked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yerked |
| you | had yerked |
| he;she;it | had yerked |
| we | had yerked |
| you | had yerked |
| they | had yerked |
Future
| I | will yerk |
| you | will yerk |
| he;she;it | will yerk |
| we | will yerk |
| you | will yerk |
| they | will yerk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have yerked |
| you | will have yerked |
| he;she;it | will have yerked |
| we | will have yerked |
| you | will have yerked |
| they | will have yerked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | yerk |
| you | yerk |
| he;she;it | yerk |
| we | yerk |
| you | yerk |
| they | yerk |
Perfect
| I | have yerked |
| you | have yerked |
| he;she;it | have yerked |
| we | have yerked |
| you | have yerked |
| they | have yerked |
Imperfect
| I | yerked |
| you | yerked |
| he;she;it | yerked |
| we | yerked |
| you | yerked |
| they | yerked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yerked |
| you | had yerked |
| he;she;it | had yerked |
| we | had yerked |
| you | had yerked |
| they | had yerked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would yerk |
| you | would yerk |
| he;she;it | would yerk |
| we | would yerk |
| you | would yerk |
| they | would yerk |
Perfect
| I | would have yerked |
| you | would have yerked |
| he;she;it | would have yerked |
| we | would have yerked |
| you | would have yerked |
| they | would have yerked |
Imperative
| you | yerk |
| we | Let's yerk |
| you | yerk |
Verbs conjugated like 'yerk'
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 'yerk'
ferk,
jerk,
merk,
perk,
yark,
yerd,
yern,
yesk,
yeuk,
yirk,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to administer a physical blow
- bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, dab, dash, dowse, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, hammer, hit, kick, knock, lunge, pat, patter, pelt, pink, poke, pound, pummel, punch, rap, slam, slap, strike, swap, tap, thrash, thump, thwack, whack, whip
- to pierce or wound with a pointed tool or weapon
- chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride, jab, job, juke, kebab, knifecrime, pigstick, pink, poach, run through, spear, speet, splash, stab, stick, stob, stog, thrust
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English ȝerken (“to move suddenly, excite, bind tightly, attack”), from Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready”), compare ġearc (“active, quick”). Cognate with jerk; see yare for more cognates.
Sample Sentences
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To doe no contriu'd mur[t]her; I lacke iniquity / Sometimes to do me ſeruice: nine or ten times, / I had thought to haue ierk'd him here, / Vnder the ribbes. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 6:]
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Their wounded steeds […] / Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters. [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:]
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Vp on a ſuddaine they together ſtart, / And driue at him as faſt as they could ding, / They flirt, they yerke, they backvvard fluce, and fling / As though the Deuill in their heeles had bin, / That to eſcape the danger he vvas in. [1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “[Elegies upon Sundry Occasions.]”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 242:]