Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dyke
Participle: dyked
Gerund: dyking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dyke |
| you | dyke |
| he;she;it | dykes |
| we | dyke |
| you | dyke |
| they | dyke |
Perfect
| I | have dyked |
| you | have dyked |
| he;she;it | has dyked |
| we | have dyked |
| you | have dyked |
| they | have dyked |
Past
| I | dyked |
| you | dyked |
| he;she;it | dyked |
| we | dyked |
| you | dyked |
| they | dyked |
Pluperfect
| I | had dyked |
| you | had dyked |
| he;she;it | had dyked |
| we | had dyked |
| you | had dyked |
| they | had dyked |
Future
| I | will dyke |
| you | will dyke |
| he;she;it | will dyke |
| we | will dyke |
| you | will dyke |
| they | will dyke |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dyked |
| you | will have dyked |
| he;she;it | will have dyked |
| we | will have dyked |
| you | will have dyked |
| they | will have dyked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dyke |
| you | dyke |
| he;she;it | dyke |
| we | dyke |
| you | dyke |
| they | dyke |
Perfect
| I | have dyked |
| you | have dyked |
| he;she;it | have dyked |
| we | have dyked |
| you | have dyked |
| they | have dyked |
Imperfect
| I | dyked |
| you | dyked |
| he;she;it | dyked |
| we | dyked |
| you | dyked |
| they | dyked |
Pluperfect
| I | had dyked |
| you | had dyked |
| he;she;it | had dyked |
| we | had dyked |
| you | had dyked |
| they | had dyked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dyke |
| you | would dyke |
| he;she;it | would dyke |
| we | would dyke |
| you | would dyke |
| they | would dyke |
Perfect
| I | would have dyked |
| you | would have dyked |
| he;she;it | would have dyked |
| we | would have dyked |
| you | would have dyked |
| they | would have dyked |
Imperative
| you | dyke |
| we | Let's dyke |
| you | dyke |
Verbs conjugated like 'dyke'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dyke'
deke,
dike,
duke,
dye,
kyke,
pyke,
aske,
ayme,
bake,
bike,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. A variant of dike, from Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also ditch.
2. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dīkiją (“trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“stick into, pierce; dig, stick a spade into”). The semantic evolution (also seen in several cognate words) was from "stick (a spade) into" to "dig" to "hole or other product of digging", "excavation", then the ridge of earth created when excavating a ditch, then to a ridge of earth intended to prevent flooding.
Sample Sentences
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He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame. [1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “Prelude. Of the Fens.”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4:]