Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dock
Participle: docked
Gerund: docking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dock |
| you | dock |
| he;she;it | docks |
| we | dock |
| you | dock |
| they | dock |
Perfect
| I | have docked |
| you | have docked |
| he;she;it | has docked |
| we | have docked |
| you | have docked |
| they | have docked |
Past
| I | docked |
| you | docked |
| he;she;it | docked |
| we | docked |
| you | docked |
| they | docked |
Pluperfect
| I | had docked |
| you | had docked |
| he;she;it | had docked |
| we | had docked |
| you | had docked |
| they | had docked |
Future
| I | will dock |
| you | will dock |
| he;she;it | will dock |
| we | will dock |
| you | will dock |
| they | will dock |
Future Perfect
| I | will have docked |
| you | will have docked |
| he;she;it | will have docked |
| we | will have docked |
| you | will have docked |
| they | will have docked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dock |
| you | dock |
| he;she;it | dock |
| we | dock |
| you | dock |
| they | dock |
Perfect
| I | have docked |
| you | have docked |
| he;she;it | have docked |
| we | have docked |
| you | have docked |
| they | have docked |
Imperfect
| I | docked |
| you | docked |
| he;she;it | docked |
| we | docked |
| you | docked |
| they | docked |
Pluperfect
| I | had docked |
| you | had docked |
| he;she;it | had docked |
| we | had docked |
| you | had docked |
| they | had docked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dock |
| you | would dock |
| he;she;it | would dock |
| we | would dock |
| you | would dock |
| they | would dock |
Perfect
| I | would have docked |
| you | would have docked |
| he;she;it | would have docked |
| we | would have docked |
| you | would have docked |
| they | would have docked |
Imperative
| you | dock |
| we | Let's dock |
| you | dock |
Verbs conjugated like 'dock'
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 'dock'
cock,
dack,
deck,
dick,
donk,
dook,
duck,
hock,
jock,
lock,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- clip
- prune, crop, shorten, trim, cut, shear
- decrease
- diminish, withhold, deduct, lessen
Antonyms
- decrease
- augment, increase, amplify, enlarge
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "cut an animal's tail," c.1386, from dok (n.) "fleshy part of an animal's tail," related to O.E. -docca "muscle," from P.Gmc. *dokko "something round, bundle" (cf. O.N. dokka "bundle, girl," Dan. dukke "doll," Ger. Docke "small column, bundle, doll, smart girl"). Meaning "to reduce (someone's) pay for some infraction" is first recorded 1822.
2. A dog with a partially docked (etymology 2, verb sense 1) tail
3. From Middle English dok (“trimmed hair, dock”), from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingerdocce (“finger muscles”)), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeu-k- (“to spin, shake”).
4. Compare Icelandic dokkur (“stumpy tail”), Low German Dokke (“bundle of straw”), West Frisian dok (“bunch, ball (twine)”), Albanian dak (“big ram”), Lithuanian dvė̃kti (“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas (“breath”), Sanskrit धुक्षति (dhukṣati, “to blow”).
5. The verb is from Middle English dokken (“to cut short, dock, curtail”), derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:]
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Her wages were docked by ten dollars.
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The team have been docked six points at Paris 2024 and Priestman received a one-year football ban from world governing body Fifa. [2024 July 28, “Priestman 'heartbroken' by drone scandal as funding pulled”, in BBC:]
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They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.
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to dock an entail
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Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork. [Emma Christensen (11 July 2008), “How and When to Dock a Pie Crust”, in The Kitchn]