Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to quill
Participle: quilled
Gerund: quilling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | quill |
| you | quill |
| he;she;it | quills |
| we | quill |
| you | quill |
| they | quill |
Perfect
| I | have quilled |
| you | have quilled |
| he;she;it | has quilled |
| we | have quilled |
| you | have quilled |
| they | have quilled |
Past
| I | quilled |
| you | quilled |
| he;she;it | quilled |
| we | quilled |
| you | quilled |
| they | quilled |
Pluperfect
| I | had quilled |
| you | had quilled |
| he;she;it | had quilled |
| we | had quilled |
| you | had quilled |
| they | had quilled |
Future
| I | will quill |
| you | will quill |
| he;she;it | will quill |
| we | will quill |
| you | will quill |
| they | will quill |
Future Perfect
| I | will have quilled |
| you | will have quilled |
| he;she;it | will have quilled |
| we | will have quilled |
| you | will have quilled |
| they | will have quilled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | quill |
| you | quill |
| he;she;it | quill |
| we | quill |
| you | quill |
| they | quill |
Perfect
| I | have quilled |
| you | have quilled |
| he;she;it | have quilled |
| we | have quilled |
| you | have quilled |
| they | have quilled |
Imperfect
| I | quilled |
| you | quilled |
| he;she;it | quilled |
| we | quilled |
| you | quilled |
| they | quilled |
Pluperfect
| I | had quilled |
| you | had quilled |
| he;she;it | had quilled |
| we | had quilled |
| you | had quilled |
| they | had quilled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would quill |
| you | would quill |
| he;she;it | would quill |
| we | would quill |
| you | would quill |
| they | would quill |
Perfect
| I | would have quilled |
| you | would have quilled |
| he;she;it | would have quilled |
| we | would have quilled |
| you | would have quilled |
| they | would have quilled |
Imperative
| you | quill |
| we | Let's quill |
| you | quill |
Verbs conjugated like 'quill'
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 'quill'
quell,
quilt,
quirl,
æquall,
akill,
bill,
build,
bull,
chill,
cull,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”).
2. Compare Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”), which is derived from the Low German term.
Sample Sentences
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Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled. [1966, David Francis Costello, The World of the Porcupine, J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 66:]
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Then one of my dogs got quilled, and it happened again a month later. After putting the dog in a headlock, yanking out several dozen quills, and spurting blood all over myself and the decking of the back porch, I at least understood his antiporcupine venom. [2010, Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter's Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 49:]
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Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin. [1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 182:]
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One has only to recall that Coleridge and Wordsworth one day were lounging by the sea shore, while nearby sat an English police agent on snitch patrol prepared to rush to headquarters to quill a report about the conversation. [1976, Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry, City Lights, published 1976, page 11:]
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Another characteristic of Plains Indians was the fairly strict division between art made and used by men and art made and used by women. Although men and women sometimes cooperated, women usually painted or quilled very balanced, controlled geometric designs on dresses, moccasins, robes, bags, and containers. [2007, David J. Wishart, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians, University of Nebraska Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 32:]
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:quill.