Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to oil
Participle: oiled
Gerund: oiling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | oil |
| you | oil |
| he;she;it | oils |
| we | oil |
| you | oil |
| they | oil |
Perfect
| I | have oiled |
| you | have oiled |
| he;she;it | has oiled |
| we | have oiled |
| you | have oiled |
| they | have oiled |
Past
| I | oiled |
| you | oiled |
| he;she;it | oiled |
| we | oiled |
| you | oiled |
| they | oiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had oiled |
| you | had oiled |
| he;she;it | had oiled |
| we | had oiled |
| you | had oiled |
| they | had oiled |
Future
| I | will oil |
| you | will oil |
| he;she;it | will oil |
| we | will oil |
| you | will oil |
| they | will oil |
Future Perfect
| I | will have oiled |
| you | will have oiled |
| he;she;it | will have oiled |
| we | will have oiled |
| you | will have oiled |
| they | will have oiled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | oil |
| you | oil |
| he;she;it | oil |
| we | oil |
| you | oil |
| they | oil |
Perfect
| I | have oiled |
| you | have oiled |
| he;she;it | have oiled |
| we | have oiled |
| you | have oiled |
| they | have oiled |
Imperfect
| I | oiled |
| you | oiled |
| he;she;it | oiled |
| we | oiled |
| you | oiled |
| they | oiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had oiled |
| you | had oiled |
| he;she;it | had oiled |
| we | had oiled |
| you | had oiled |
| they | had oiled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would oil |
| you | would oil |
| he;she;it | would oil |
| we | would oil |
| you | would oil |
| they | would oil |
Perfect
| I | would have oiled |
| you | would have oiled |
| he;she;it | would have oiled |
| we | would have oiled |
| you | would have oiled |
| they | would have oiled |
Imperative
| you | oil |
| we | Let's oil |
| you | oil |
Verbs conjugated like 'oil'
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 'oil'
ail,
boil,
coil,
foil,
moil,
nil,
owl,
roil,
soil,
toil,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English oilen, oylen, from the noun (see above).Verbs referencing "oil"
Tok Pisin welim.
Sample Sentences
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Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints. [1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:]
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Platform faces in Holland are further back from the track than they are in Britain, and it is a common thing to see a driver standing quite comfortably between his engine and the platform while oiling the motion. [1955 February, E. J. Tyler and J. Quanjer, “The Steam Locomotive in Holland 1919-1954”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:]
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The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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"Do you need a drink?" oils Robert Ryan to the disinterested Stanwyck in Clash By Night; "Let's say that's what I need," she sneers back. [1984 December 22, Michael Bronski, “Women Act Out on Film”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 10:]