Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ink in sth
Participle: inked in sth
Gerund: inking in sth
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ink in sth |
| you | ink in sth |
| he;she;it | inks in sth |
| we | ink in sth |
| you | ink in sth |
| they | ink in sth |
Perfect
| I | have inked in sth |
| you | have inked in sth |
| he;she;it | has inked in sth |
| we | have inked in sth |
| you | have inked in sth |
| they | have inked in sth |
Past
| I | inked in sth |
| you | inked in sth |
| he;she;it | inked in sth |
| we | inked in sth |
| you | inked in sth |
| they | inked in sth |
Pluperfect
| I | had inked in sth |
| you | had inked in sth |
| he;she;it | had inked in sth |
| we | had inked in sth |
| you | had inked in sth |
| they | had inked in sth |
Future
| I | will ink in sth |
| you | will ink in sth |
| he;she;it | will ink in sth |
| we | will ink in sth |
| you | will ink in sth |
| they | will ink in sth |
Future Perfect
| I | will have inked in sth |
| you | will have inked in sth |
| he;she;it | will have inked in sth |
| we | will have inked in sth |
| you | will have inked in sth |
| they | will have inked in sth |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ink in sth |
| you | ink in sth |
| he;she;it | ink in sth |
| we | ink in sth |
| you | ink in sth |
| they | ink in sth |
Perfect
| I | have inked in sth |
| you | have inked in sth |
| he;she;it | have inked in sth |
| we | have inked in sth |
| you | have inked in sth |
| they | have inked in sth |
Imperfect
| I | inked in sth |
| you | inked in sth |
| he;she;it | inked in sth |
| we | inked in sth |
| you | inked in sth |
| they | inked in sth |
Pluperfect
| I | had inked in sth |
| you | had inked in sth |
| he;she;it | had inked in sth |
| we | had inked in sth |
| you | had inked in sth |
| they | had inked in sth |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ink in sth |
| you | would ink in sth |
| he;she;it | would ink in sth |
| we | would ink in sth |
| you | would ink in sth |
| they | would ink in sth |
Perfect
| I | would have inked in sth |
| you | would have inked in sth |
| he;she;it | would have inked in sth |
| we | would have inked in sth |
| you | would have inked in sth |
| they | would have inked in sth |
Imperative
| you | ink in sth |
| we | Let's ink in sth |
| you | ink in sth |
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:]