deck – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to deck out sb
Participle: decked out sb
Gerund: decking out sb

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	deck out sb
we	Let's deck out sb
you	deck out sb

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to make pretty

adorn, apparel, array, beautify, bedeck, deck out, decorate, decore, do up, dress up, dub, embellish, garnish, grace, ornament, prettify, pretty up

adorn

grace, ornament, trick, array, attire, bedeck, bedizen, clothe

Antonyms

adorn

deface, mar, spoil, tarnish

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1466, probably aphetic of M.L.G. verdeck, a nautical word, from ver- "fore" + decken "to cover, put under roof," from P.Gmc. *thackjam (related to thatch), from PIE *(s)tog-/*(s)teg- "cover" (see stegosaurus). Sense extended early in Eng. from "covering" to "platform of a ship." "Pack of cards" is 1593, perhaps because they were stacked like decks of a ship. The verb sense of "knock down" is first recorded c.1953, probably from notion of laying someone out on the deck. Deck chair (1884) so called because they were used on ocean liners. Tape deck (1949) is in ref. to the flat surface of old reel-to-reel tape recorders.
2. From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack. See: Middle Dutch 'decken', Proto-Germanic '*þakjaną'.

Verbs referencing "deck"

Latin tego.

Sample Sentences