Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sneap
Participle: sneaped
Gerund: sneaping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sneap |
| you | sneap |
| he;she;it | sneaps |
| we | sneap |
| you | sneap |
| they | sneap |
Perfect
| I | have sneaped |
| you | have sneaped |
| he;she;it | has sneaped |
| we | have sneaped |
| you | have sneaped |
| they | have sneaped |
Past
| I | sneaped |
| you | sneaped |
| he;she;it | sneaped |
| we | sneaped |
| you | sneaped |
| they | sneaped |
Pluperfect
| I | had sneaped |
| you | had sneaped |
| he;she;it | had sneaped |
| we | had sneaped |
| you | had sneaped |
| they | had sneaped |
Future
| I | will sneap |
| you | will sneap |
| he;she;it | will sneap |
| we | will sneap |
| you | will sneap |
| they | will sneap |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sneaped |
| you | will have sneaped |
| he;she;it | will have sneaped |
| we | will have sneaped |
| you | will have sneaped |
| they | will have sneaped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sneap |
| you | sneap |
| he;she;it | sneap |
| we | sneap |
| you | sneap |
| they | sneap |
Perfect
| I | have sneaped |
| you | have sneaped |
| he;she;it | have sneaped |
| we | have sneaped |
| you | have sneaped |
| they | have sneaped |
Imperfect
| I | sneaped |
| you | sneaped |
| he;she;it | sneaped |
| we | sneaped |
| you | sneaped |
| they | sneaped |
Pluperfect
| I | had sneaped |
| you | had sneaped |
| he;she;it | had sneaped |
| we | had sneaped |
| you | had sneaped |
| they | had sneaped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sneap |
| you | would sneap |
| he;she;it | would sneap |
| we | would sneap |
| you | would sneap |
| they | would sneap |
Perfect
| I | would have sneaped |
| you | would have sneaped |
| he;she;it | would have sneaped |
| we | would have sneaped |
| you | would have sneaped |
| they | would have sneaped |
Imperative
| you | sneap |
| we | Let's sneap |
| you | sneap |
Verbs conjugated like 'sneap'
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 'sneap'
neap,
snead,
aneal,
anear,
cheap,
dreap,
heap,
knap,
knead,
leap,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult
- abuse, affront, burn, carry, cut down, dis, diss, give stick, heckle, hurt someone's feelings, insult, lapidate, misbid, misrespect, misuse, offend, sledge, slight, wound
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The verb is a variant of snape, from Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną, from Proto-Germanic *snūpaną, *snūbaną (“to cut, snap”); further origin unknown.
2. The noun is derived from the verb.
Sample Sentences
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Nay, I am gone. I'm a man quickly sneaped. [1611, Thomas Middleton, The Lady's Tragedy:]
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That vvee doe enough hate our corruptions, vvhen (at our ſharpeſt) vve doe but gently ſneape them, […] [1623 February 12 (Gregorian calendar), Jos[eph] Hall, The Great Impostor, Laid Open in a Sermon at Grayes Inne, Febr. 2. 1623, London: […] J. Haviland for Nath[aniel] Butter, →OCLC, page 21:]
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But life that's here, / VVhen into it the ſoul doth cloſely vvind, / Is often ſneep'd by anguiſh and by fear, / VVith vexing pain and range that ſhe no'te eaſly bear. [1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC, canto 3, stanza 18, page 26:]
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John, the correct one, who could make you feel sneaped. John never felt sneaped. If you were a dog, being sneaped would be the same as going off with your tail between your legs. If you were Topaz, people tried to sneap you, but you were hard to sneap. Even the proud gentle Annie, the eldest, could be sneaped by a look, but never John. [2008, Ethel Wilson, P.K. Page, The Innocent Traveller, page 6:]
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Some days after he, in a civil manner, sent a captain with them and other soldiers to Owthorpe, to inquire into their misdemeanours before their faces; which being confirmed to him, and he beginning to rebuke them, they set him at light, even before Mrs. Hutchinson's face, and made the poor man retire sneaped to his colonel; [1906, Lucy Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, page 315:]
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And moreover she was convinced that her mother, secretly very flattered and delighted by the visit, was adopting a derisive attitude in order to 'show off' before her daughter. Parents are thus ingenuous! But she was so shocked and sneaped that she found it more convenient to say nothing. [1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways:]
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As I have often had causee to remark before, my hon. Friend, though appearing to be a hard-boiled member of the Committee is in fact very tender, and, as we say in north Staffordshire, easily sneaped or upset. He has been sneaped by the Government Whip's elevation. [1983, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of the Standing Committees, page 683:]