Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to clip the church
Participle: clipped the church
Gerund: clipping the church
Indicative
Present
| I | clip the church |
| you | clip the church |
| he;she;it | clips the church |
| we | clip the church |
| you | clip the church |
| they | clip the church |
Perfect
| I | have clipped the church |
| you | have clipped the church |
| he;she;it | has clipped the church |
| we | have clipped the church |
| you | have clipped the church |
| they | have clipped the church |
Past
| I | clipped the church |
| you | clipped the church |
| he;she;it | clipped the church |
| we | clipped the church |
| you | clipped the church |
| they | clipped the church |
Pluperfect
| I | had clipped the church |
| you | had clipped the church |
| he;she;it | had clipped the church |
| we | had clipped the church |
| you | had clipped the church |
| they | had clipped the church |
Future
| I | will clip the church |
| you | will clip the church |
| he;she;it | will clip the church |
| we | will clip the church |
| you | will clip the church |
| they | will clip the church |
Future Perfect
| I | will have clipped the church |
| you | will have clipped the church |
| he;she;it | will have clipped the church |
| we | will have clipped the church |
| you | will have clipped the church |
| they | will have clipped the church |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | clip the church |
| you | clip the church |
| he;she;it | clip the church |
| we | clip the church |
| you | clip the church |
| they | clip the church |
Perfect
| I | have clipped the church |
| you | have clipped the church |
| he;she;it | have clipped the church |
| we | have clipped the church |
| you | have clipped the church |
| they | have clipped the church |
Imperfect
| I | clipped the church |
| you | clipped the church |
| he;she;it | clipped the church |
| we | clipped the church |
| you | clipped the church |
| they | clipped the church |
Pluperfect
| I | had clipped the church |
| you | had clipped the church |
| he;she;it | had clipped the church |
| we | had clipped the church |
| you | had clipped the church |
| they | had clipped the church |
Conditional
Present
| I | would clip the church |
| you | would clip the church |
| he;she;it | would clip the church |
| we | would clip the church |
| you | would clip the church |
| they | would clip the church |
Perfect
| I | would have clipped the church |
| you | would have clipped the church |
| he;she;it | would have clipped the church |
| we | would have clipped the church |
| you | would have clipped the church |
| they | would have clipped the church |
Imperative
| you | clip the church |
| we | Let's clip the church |
| you | clip the church |
Verbs conjugated like 'clip'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'clip'
blip,
chip,
clap,
clit,
clop,
flip,
glip,
lip,
plip,
slip,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to clasp in the arms with affection
- accoll, amplect, beclip, coll, complect, comply, cwtch, embrace, enfold, enhalse, fall on someone's neck, fathom, glomp, halse, hug, infold, oxter, press, squeeze, umbeclap
- decrease
- curtail, pare, shorten, abridge, diminish
Antonyms
- decrease
- augment, increase, amplify, enlarge
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”). See: Old English '
clyppan', Middle High German '
klimpen'.
Sample Sentences
-
Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
-
"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ... [1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines:]
-
What, fifty of my followers at a clap! [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:]
-
When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping, feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace-mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, embolden'd by every freedom he could wish, wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his (Fanny Hill) [1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:]
-
White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]