Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cream sb off
Participle: creamed sb off
Gerund: creaming sb off
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cream sb off |
| you | cream sb off |
| he;she;it | creams sb off |
| we | cream sb off |
| you | cream sb off |
| they | cream sb off |
Perfect
| I | have creamed sb off |
| you | have creamed sb off |
| he;she;it | has creamed sb off |
| we | have creamed sb off |
| you | have creamed sb off |
| they | have creamed sb off |
Past
| I | creamed sb off |
| you | creamed sb off |
| he;she;it | creamed sb off |
| we | creamed sb off |
| you | creamed sb off |
| they | creamed sb off |
Pluperfect
| I | had creamed sb off |
| you | had creamed sb off |
| he;she;it | had creamed sb off |
| we | had creamed sb off |
| you | had creamed sb off |
| they | had creamed sb off |
Future
| I | will cream sb off |
| you | will cream sb off |
| he;she;it | will cream sb off |
| we | will cream sb off |
| you | will cream sb off |
| they | will cream sb off |
Future Perfect
| I | will have creamed sb off |
| you | will have creamed sb off |
| he;she;it | will have creamed sb off |
| we | will have creamed sb off |
| you | will have creamed sb off |
| they | will have creamed sb off |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cream sb off |
| you | cream sb off |
| he;she;it | cream sb off |
| we | cream sb off |
| you | cream sb off |
| they | cream sb off |
Perfect
| I | have creamed sb off |
| you | have creamed sb off |
| he;she;it | have creamed sb off |
| we | have creamed sb off |
| you | have creamed sb off |
| they | have creamed sb off |
Imperfect
| I | creamed sb off |
| you | creamed sb off |
| he;she;it | creamed sb off |
| we | creamed sb off |
| you | creamed sb off |
| they | creamed sb off |
Pluperfect
| I | had creamed sb off |
| you | had creamed sb off |
| he;she;it | had creamed sb off |
| we | had creamed sb off |
| you | had creamed sb off |
| they | had creamed sb off |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cream sb off |
| you | would cream sb off |
| he;she;it | would cream sb off |
| we | would cream sb off |
| you | would cream sb off |
| they | would cream sb off |
Perfect
| I | would have creamed sb off |
| you | would have creamed sb off |
| he;she;it | would have creamed sb off |
| we | would have creamed sb off |
| you | would have creamed sb off |
| they | would have creamed sb off |
Imperative
| you | cream sb off |
| we | Let's cream sb off |
| you | cream sb off |
Verbs conjugated like 'cream'
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 'cream'
bream,
cram,
creak,
dream,
ream,
aread,
arear,
beam,
bleam,
bread,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. 1332, from O.Fr. cresme, blend of L.L. chrisma "ointment" (from Gk. chrisma "unguent"), and L.L. cramum "cream," perhaps from Gaulish. Replaced O.E. ream. Re-borrowed from Fr. 19c., as creme. Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" is from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. Cream-cheese is from 1583.
2. From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream).
3. Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
Sample Sentences
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Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
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We creamed the opposing team!
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First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed. [2026 April 18, Michelle Cottle, David French, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance’s Very Bad Week”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning. [1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, in Grease:]
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Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
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creaming the fragrant cups [1871, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks:]
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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain; a close approximation to it will answer, and much traveling is done in a well-enough fashion by its help, but we do not welcome it and applaud it and rejoice in it as we do when the right one blazes out on us. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry. [1906, Mark Twain, “William Dean Howells”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 113, number 674, page 221:]