Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sock
Participle: socked
Gerund: socking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sock |
| you | sock |
| he;she;it | socks |
| we | sock |
| you | sock |
| they | sock |
Perfect
| I | have socked |
| you | have socked |
| he;she;it | has socked |
| we | have socked |
| you | have socked |
| they | have socked |
Past
| I | socked |
| you | socked |
| he;she;it | socked |
| we | socked |
| you | socked |
| they | socked |
Pluperfect
| I | had socked |
| you | had socked |
| he;she;it | had socked |
| we | had socked |
| you | had socked |
| they | had socked |
Future
| I | will sock |
| you | will sock |
| he;she;it | will sock |
| we | will sock |
| you | will sock |
| they | will sock |
Future Perfect
| I | will have socked |
| you | will have socked |
| he;she;it | will have socked |
| we | will have socked |
| you | will have socked |
| they | will have socked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sock |
| you | sock |
| he;she;it | sock |
| we | sock |
| you | sock |
| they | sock |
Perfect
| I | have socked |
| you | have socked |
| he;she;it | have socked |
| we | have socked |
| you | have socked |
| they | have socked |
Imperfect
| I | socked |
| you | socked |
| he;she;it | socked |
| we | socked |
| you | socked |
| they | socked |
Pluperfect
| I | had socked |
| you | had socked |
| he;she;it | had socked |
| we | had socked |
| you | had socked |
| they | had socked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sock |
| you | would sock |
| he;she;it | would sock |
| we | would sock |
| you | would sock |
| they | would sock |
Perfect
| I | would have socked |
| you | would have socked |
| he;she;it | would have socked |
| we | would have socked |
| you | would have socked |
| they | would have socked |
Imperative
| you | sock |
| we | Let's sock |
| you | sock |
Verbs conjugated like 'sock'
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 'sock'
cock,
dock,
hock,
jock,
lock,
mock,
nock,
pock,
rock,
sack,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese soco (“a hit with one's hand; a punch”).
Sample Sentences
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"We must get the old dear out," said Lord Roxton to Malone. "He'll be had for manslaughter if we don't. What I mean, he's not responsible - he'll sock someone and be lagged for it." [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Professor Challenger Goes Forth to Battle”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]
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What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it. [1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 13, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:]
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They may let you off the first time because you're new maybe. But the second time they'll sock it to you, give you a couple of days in the Hole, then throw you in Number Two. [1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Book Four:]
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He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned. [1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428:]
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As part of ABC’s coverage of the police “blue riot” that ensued in Chicago – batons cracking student skulls – Vidal calls Buckley a “crypto-Nazi” for justifying the brutality, to which Buckley snaps: “Listen to me you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.” [2015 August 1, Ed Vulliamy, quoting William F. Buckley Jr., “‘Don’t call me a crypto-Nazi!’ The lost heart of political debate”, in The Guardian:]