Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ink
Participle: inked
Gerund: inking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ink |
| you | ink |
| he;she;it | inks |
| we | ink |
| you | ink |
| they | ink |
Perfect
| I | have inked |
| you | have inked |
| he;she;it | has inked |
| we | have inked |
| you | have inked |
| they | have inked |
Past
| I | inked |
| you | inked |
| he;she;it | inked |
| we | inked |
| you | inked |
| they | inked |
Pluperfect
| I | had inked |
| you | had inked |
| he;she;it | had inked |
| we | had inked |
| you | had inked |
| they | had inked |
Future
| I | will ink |
| you | will ink |
| he;she;it | will ink |
| we | will ink |
| you | will ink |
| they | will ink |
Future Perfect
| I | will have inked |
| you | will have inked |
| he;she;it | will have inked |
| we | will have inked |
| you | will have inked |
| they | will have inked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ink |
| you | ink |
| he;she;it | ink |
| we | ink |
| you | ink |
| they | ink |
Perfect
| I | have inked |
| you | have inked |
| he;she;it | have inked |
| we | have inked |
| you | have inked |
| they | have inked |
Imperfect
| I | inked |
| you | inked |
| he;she;it | inked |
| we | inked |
| you | inked |
| they | inked |
Pluperfect
| I | had inked |
| you | had inked |
| he;she;it | had inked |
| we | had inked |
| you | had inked |
| they | had inked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ink |
| you | would ink |
| he;she;it | would ink |
| we | would ink |
| you | would ink |
| they | would ink |
Perfect
| I | would have inked |
| you | would have inked |
| he;she;it | would have inked |
| we | would have inked |
| you | would have inked |
| they | would have inked |
Imperative
| you | ink |
| we | Let's ink |
| you | ink |
Verbs conjugated like 'ink'
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 'ink'
dink,
in,
inn,
irk,
jink,
kink,
link,
oink,
pink,
sink,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1. "the black liquor with which men write" [Johnson], c.1250, from O.Fr. enque "dark writing fluid," from L.L. encaustum, from Gk. enkauston "purple or red ink," used by the Roman emperors to sign documents, originally a neut. adj. form of enkaustos "burned in," from stem of enkaiein "to burn in," from en- "in" + kaiein "to burn" (see caustic). The word is from a Gk. method of applying colored wax and fixing it with heat. The verb meaning "to mark or stain in ink" is from 1562. Inky "as black as ink" is attested from 1593.
2. From Middle English ynke, from Old French enque, from Latin encaustum (“purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”), from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston, “burned-in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + καίω (kaíō, “burn”). In this sense, displaced native Old English blæc (“ink”, literally “black”).
3. Sense four refers to the ink used in newspapers.
Sample Sentences
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A plain impression is obtained by pressing the bulb of the finger, with the plane of the nail parallel to the plane of the plate, on the inked plate and then on the paper in the same manner. [1919, R. H. Leigh, How to Obtain Good Finger Prints, third edition, U.S. Navy Department Bureau of Navigation, page 1:]
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Before Musk, America’s space industry was moribund. In 2011, NASA mothballed the last space shuttle, after inking a deal with SpaceX to make uncrewed cargo resupply runs to the International Space Station (ISS). [2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:]