Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to corkscrew
Participle: corkscrewed
Gerund: corkscrewing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | corkscrew |
| you | corkscrew |
| he;she;it | corkscrews |
| we | corkscrew |
| you | corkscrew |
| they | corkscrew |
Perfect
| I | have corkscrewed |
| you | have corkscrewed |
| he;she;it | has corkscrewed |
| we | have corkscrewed |
| you | have corkscrewed |
| they | have corkscrewed |
Past
| I | corkscrewed |
| you | corkscrewed |
| he;she;it | corkscrewed |
| we | corkscrewed |
| you | corkscrewed |
| they | corkscrewed |
Pluperfect
| I | had corkscrewed |
| you | had corkscrewed |
| he;she;it | had corkscrewed |
| we | had corkscrewed |
| you | had corkscrewed |
| they | had corkscrewed |
Future
| I | will corkscrew |
| you | will corkscrew |
| he;she;it | will corkscrew |
| we | will corkscrew |
| you | will corkscrew |
| they | will corkscrew |
Future Perfect
| I | will have corkscrewed |
| you | will have corkscrewed |
| he;she;it | will have corkscrewed |
| we | will have corkscrewed |
| you | will have corkscrewed |
| they | will have corkscrewed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | corkscrew |
| you | corkscrew |
| he;she;it | corkscrew |
| we | corkscrew |
| you | corkscrew |
| they | corkscrew |
Perfect
| I | have corkscrewed |
| you | have corkscrewed |
| he;she;it | have corkscrewed |
| we | have corkscrewed |
| you | have corkscrewed |
| they | have corkscrewed |
Imperfect
| I | corkscrewed |
| you | corkscrewed |
| he;she;it | corkscrewed |
| we | corkscrewed |
| you | corkscrewed |
| they | corkscrewed |
Pluperfect
| I | had corkscrewed |
| you | had corkscrewed |
| he;she;it | had corkscrewed |
| we | had corkscrewed |
| you | had corkscrewed |
| they | had corkscrewed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would corkscrew |
| you | would corkscrew |
| he;she;it | would corkscrew |
| we | would corkscrew |
| you | would corkscrew |
| they | would corkscrew |
Perfect
| I | would have corkscrewed |
| you | would have corkscrewed |
| he;she;it | would have corkscrewed |
| we | would have corkscrewed |
| you | would have corkscrewed |
| they | would have corkscrewed |
Imperative
| you | corkscrew |
| we | Let's corkscrew |
| you | corkscrew |
Verbs conjugated like 'corkscrew'
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 'corkscrew'
concrew,
coinsure,
conacre,
cornice,
cornrow,
corpse,
corset,
coruscate,
crossref,
foreshew,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-sder.
5. Latin cortexder.?
6. ▲
7. Latin cortexder.
8. Mozarabic *kórčo, *kórčeder.?
9. Spanish corchobor.
10. Middle Dutch curcder.
11. Middle English cork
12. English cork
13. Proto-Indo-European *(s)krebʰ-der.?
14. Latin scrōfa
15. Old French escrouebor.
16. ▲
17. Old French escruveinflu.
18. Middle English scrue
19. English screw
20. English corkscrew
21. From cork + screw.
Sample Sentences
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Into the tea–room Mr. Pickwick turned; and catching sight of him, Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd and welcomed him with ecstasy. [1832, Charles Dickens, chapter 35, in The Pickwick Papers:]
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The street corkscrewed endlessly. Sometimes it seemed to stop; then it found a hole in the opposing masonry and edged its way in. [1916, John Buchan, chapter 10, in Greenmantle:]
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Far off to starboard an Atlantic liner, all lights blazing, came towards us, corkscrewing with a motion which must have left the passengers unhappy. [1960, Lobsang Rampa, chapter 5, in The Rampa Story:]
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Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab’s boat. [1851, Herman Melville, chapter 134, in Moby-Dick:]
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Rusty corkscrewed the plane back down again, but instead of mashing the throttles to the wall, he pulled them to idle. [2006, Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four, page 155:]
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Soon he was corkscrewed into place, suspended from the ceiling in an impossible maze of unforgiving circuitry. [2007, Mike Monahan, Barracuda, page 107:]
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I strongly suspect (from what Small has dropped, and from what we have corkscrewed out of him) that those letters I was to have brought to your ladyship were not destroyed when I supposed they were. [1852, Charles Dickens, chapter 55, in Bleak House:]
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Yes, I believe you did after it was corkscrewed out of you, but I got the impression at the outset that you were, just as willing to let it stand there. [1922, James Thomas Heflin, Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, page 460:]