Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sling mud
Participle: slung mud
Gerund: slinging mud
Indicative
Present
| I | sling mud |
| you | sling mud |
| he;she;it | slings mud |
| we | sling mud |
| you | sling mud |
| they | sling mud |
Perfect
| I | have slung mud |
| you | have slung mud |
| he;she;it | has slung mud |
| we | have slung mud |
| you | have slung mud |
| they | have slung mud |
Past
| I | slung mud |
| you | slung mud |
| he;she;it | slung mud |
| we | slung mud |
| you | slung mud |
| they | slung mud |
Pluperfect
| I | had slung mud |
| you | had slung mud |
| he;she;it | had slung mud |
| we | had slung mud |
| you | had slung mud |
| they | had slung mud |
Future
| I | will sling mud |
| you | will sling mud |
| he;she;it | will sling mud |
| we | will sling mud |
| you | will sling mud |
| they | will sling mud |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slung mud |
| you | will have slung mud |
| he;she;it | will have slung mud |
| we | will have slung mud |
| you | will have slung mud |
| they | will have slung mud |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sling mud |
| you | sling mud |
| he;she;it | sling mud |
| we | sling mud |
| you | sling mud |
| they | sling mud |
Perfect
| I | have slung mud |
| you | have slung mud |
| he;she;it | have slung mud |
| we | have slung mud |
| you | have slung mud |
| they | have slung mud |
Imperfect
| I | slung mud |
| you | slung mud |
| he;she;it | slung mud |
| we | slung mud |
| you | slung mud |
| they | slung mud |
Pluperfect
| I | had slung mud |
| you | had slung mud |
| he;she;it | had slung mud |
| we | had slung mud |
| you | had slung mud |
| they | had slung mud |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sling mud |
| you | would sling mud |
| he;she;it | would sling mud |
| we | would sling mud |
| you | would sling mud |
| they | would sling mud |
Perfect
| I | would have slung mud |
| you | would have slung mud |
| he;she;it | would have slung mud |
| we | would have slung mud |
| you | would have slung mud |
| they | would have slung mud |
Imperative
| you | sling mud |
| we | Let's sling mud |
| you | sling mud |
Verbs conjugated like 'sling'
cling,
dig,
fling,
hamstring,
sling,
slink,
stick,
sting,
string,
swing,
underdig,
unstick,
unstring,
wring,
foind,
outfling,
overswing,
restick,
restring,
undersling, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sling'
cling,
fling,
sing,
slang,
slink,
sting,
swing,
aline,
bing,
blin,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to cause an object to move rapidly through the air
- cast, chuck, feck, fling, hurl, launch, lob, pitch, shy, skew, throw, toss
- throw
- chuck, pitch, heave, fling, hurl, toss, send, launch
- suspend
- hang, swing, hoist, dangle, depend, weigh
Antonyms
- suspend
- extend, prolong, sustain, maintain
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "sweet flavored liquor drink," 1807, Amer.Eng., of unknown origin; perhaps lit. "to throw back" a drink, or from Ger.
schlingen "to swallow."
2. From Middle English slynge (noun), slyngen (verb), probably from Old Norse slyngja, slyngva (“to hurl”), from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną (“to worm, twist”) or compare Old English slingan (“to wind, twist”), from the same source.
3. Compare German schlingen (“to swing, wind, twist”), Danish and Norwegian slynge), from Proto-Indo-European *slenk- (“to turn, twist”) (compare Welsh llyngyr (“worms, maggots”), Lithuanian sliñkti (“to crawl like a snake”), Latvian slìkt (“to sink”)). See: Proto-Germanic '
*slingwaną', Old English '
slingan', German, old spelling '
schlingen'.
Verbs referencing "sling"
German, old spelling
schlingen, Dutch
slingen, German, old spelling
schlingern.
Sample Sentences
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[...] persons, who scrambled on board at the peril of their lives as we approached the wharf, were newsmen, answering to that industrious class at home; whereas, despite the leathern wallets of news slung about the necks of some, and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were Editors, who boarded ships in person (as one gentleman in a worsted comforter informed me ), ‘because they liked the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] fellow enough, strongly built and well made, but by no means sober: indeed he had all the air of a man who had been more or less drunk for some days. He carried a small bundle over his shoulder, slung at the end of a walking-stick, and had a short pipe in his mouth. He was as dusty and dirty as recruits usually are, and his shoes betokened that he had travelled on foot some distance, but he was [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)