Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to deskill
Participle: deskilled
Gerund: deskilling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | deskill |
| you | deskill |
| he;she;it | deskills |
| we | deskill |
| you | deskill |
| they | deskill |
Perfect
| I | have deskilled |
| you | have deskilled |
| he;she;it | has deskilled |
| we | have deskilled |
| you | have deskilled |
| they | have deskilled |
Past
| I | deskilled |
| you | deskilled |
| he;she;it | deskilled |
| we | deskilled |
| you | deskilled |
| they | deskilled |
Pluperfect
| I | had deskilled |
| you | had deskilled |
| he;she;it | had deskilled |
| we | had deskilled |
| you | had deskilled |
| they | had deskilled |
Future
| I | will deskill |
| you | will deskill |
| he;she;it | will deskill |
| we | will deskill |
| you | will deskill |
| they | will deskill |
Future Perfect
| I | will have deskilled |
| you | will have deskilled |
| he;she;it | will have deskilled |
| we | will have deskilled |
| you | will have deskilled |
| they | will have deskilled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | deskill |
| you | deskill |
| he;she;it | deskill |
| we | deskill |
| you | deskill |
| they | deskill |
Perfect
| I | have deskilled |
| you | have deskilled |
| he;she;it | have deskilled |
| we | have deskilled |
| you | have deskilled |
| they | have deskilled |
Imperfect
| I | deskilled |
| you | deskilled |
| he;she;it | deskilled |
| we | deskilled |
| you | deskilled |
| they | deskilled |
Pluperfect
| I | had deskilled |
| you | had deskilled |
| he;she;it | had deskilled |
| we | had deskilled |
| you | had deskilled |
| they | had deskilled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would deskill |
| you | would deskill |
| he;she;it | would deskill |
| we | would deskill |
| you | would deskill |
| they | would deskill |
Perfect
| I | would have deskilled |
| you | would have deskilled |
| he;she;it | would have deskilled |
| we | would have deskilled |
| you | would have deskilled |
| they | would have deskilled |
Imperative
| you | deskill |
| we | Let's deskill |
| you | deskill |
Verbs conjugated like 'deskill'
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 'deskill'
reskill,
bestill,
deshell,
desilk,
desilt,
deskin,
distill,
rekill,
seckill,
skill,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *de
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
4. Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
5. Proto-Italic *dē
6. Latin dē
7. Latin dē-der.
8. English de-
9. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH-
10. Proto-Germanic *skilją
11. Old Norse skilbor.
12. Middle English skill
13. English skill
14. English deskill
15. From de- + skill.
Sample Sentences
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The impact on workers is fairly obvious but I believe that managerial jobs have also been deskilled by the adoption of controlling systems and procedures.
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“Word processors are wonderful to make us more productive, but employers tend to take this to an extreme,” she said. “Some secretaries are very pleased with automation, but it's the larger number whose jobs are deskilled, made more redundant.” [1985 August 4, Elizabeth Kolbert, quoting Deborah Meyer, “Computers Ease the Load — At Times”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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But the data she presents “suggest a more complicated reality.” Even where “control or deskilling has been the intent of managerial choices with respect to new information technology, managers themselves are also captive to a wide range of impulses and pressures. [1988 April 21, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “When Your Colleague Is a Machine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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[Henrik] Örnebring concluded that there had not been a de-skilling of journalism so much as a more complex process of re-skilling, and this is hard to dispute in relation to the use of technology to undertake a broader range of journalistic duties in the newsroom. [2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, chapter 5, in After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:]
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Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.
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In this transition from an economy built on energy-guzzling heavy industry toward a 21st century society of energy-sipping high technology, millions of Americans and Europeans are being “deskilled.” [1983 June 12, Bruce Nussbaum, “‘Reskilling’ Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]