Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to scarf
Participle: scarfed
Gerund: scarfing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | scarf |
| you | scarf |
| he;she;it | scarfs |
| we | scarf |
| you | scarf |
| they | scarf |
Perfect
| I | have scarfed |
| you | have scarfed |
| he;she;it | has scarfed |
| we | have scarfed |
| you | have scarfed |
| they | have scarfed |
Past
| I | scarfed |
| you | scarfed |
| he;she;it | scarfed |
| we | scarfed |
| you | scarfed |
| they | scarfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had scarfed |
| you | had scarfed |
| he;she;it | had scarfed |
| we | had scarfed |
| you | had scarfed |
| they | had scarfed |
Future
| I | will scarf |
| you | will scarf |
| he;she;it | will scarf |
| we | will scarf |
| you | will scarf |
| they | will scarf |
Future Perfect
| I | will have scarfed |
| you | will have scarfed |
| he;she;it | will have scarfed |
| we | will have scarfed |
| you | will have scarfed |
| they | will have scarfed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | scarf |
| you | scarf |
| he;she;it | scarf |
| we | scarf |
| you | scarf |
| they | scarf |
Perfect
| I | have scarfed |
| you | have scarfed |
| he;she;it | have scarfed |
| we | have scarfed |
| you | have scarfed |
| they | have scarfed |
Imperfect
| I | scarfed |
| you | scarfed |
| he;she;it | scarfed |
| we | scarfed |
| you | scarfed |
| they | scarfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had scarfed |
| you | had scarfed |
| he;she;it | had scarfed |
| we | had scarfed |
| you | had scarfed |
| they | had scarfed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would scarf |
| you | would scarf |
| he;she;it | would scarf |
| we | would scarf |
| you | would scarf |
| they | would scarf |
Perfect
| I | would have scarfed |
| you | would have scarfed |
| he;she;it | would have scarfed |
| we | would have scarfed |
| you | would have scarfed |
| they | would have scarfed |
Imperative
| you | scarf |
| we | Let's scarf |
| you | scarf |
Verbs conjugated like 'scarf'
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 'scarf'
scar,
scare,
scarp,
scart,
snarf,
swarf,
barf,
card,
care,
cark,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.
Sample Sentences
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Vp from my Cabin, / My ſea-gowne scarft about me in the darke / Gropt I to find out them, […] [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature N, recto:]
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She scarfed her head.
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The back of her tan trenchcoat swished from left to right as she scarfed her head and disappeared into the dusk. [1994, Arthur Johnson, “Chinese Arithmetic”, in Tony Grima, editor, Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens, Boston, Mass.: Alyson Publications, published January 1995, →ISBN, page 144:]
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A cowl scarfed her shoulders.
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She was trying to keep the silken veil scarfing her shoulders in order. [1999, Isolde Martyn, chapter 12, in The Knight and the Rose, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 125:]
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Transfixed on the smaller branches, intensely black against the moon, were organs harvested from the body cavity – heart, spleen, kidneys and liver. […] A length of slippery bowel scarfed my neck. [2006, Jim Younger, chapter 21, in High John the Conqueror, London: Vintage Books, published 2007, →ISBN, section 1, page 276:]
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A large red ribbon scarfed her neck and seemed to have its own strange glow of the same hue. [2011, Falling Rain [pseudonym], “Fire on the Sacred Land”, in Ouroboros: Road of Legend, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 169:]