Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to headdesk
Participle: headdesked
Gerund: headdesking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | headdesk |
| you | headdesk |
| he;she;it | headdesks |
| we | headdesk |
| you | headdesk |
| they | headdesk |
Perfect
| I | have headdesked |
| you | have headdesked |
| he;she;it | has headdesked |
| we | have headdesked |
| you | have headdesked |
| they | have headdesked |
Past
| I | headdesked |
| you | headdesked |
| he;she;it | headdesked |
| we | headdesked |
| you | headdesked |
| they | headdesked |
Pluperfect
| I | had headdesked |
| you | had headdesked |
| he;she;it | had headdesked |
| we | had headdesked |
| you | had headdesked |
| they | had headdesked |
Future
| I | will headdesk |
| you | will headdesk |
| he;she;it | will headdesk |
| we | will headdesk |
| you | will headdesk |
| they | will headdesk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have headdesked |
| you | will have headdesked |
| he;she;it | will have headdesked |
| we | will have headdesked |
| you | will have headdesked |
| they | will have headdesked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | headdesk |
| you | headdesk |
| he;she;it | headdesk |
| we | headdesk |
| you | headdesk |
| they | headdesk |
Perfect
| I | have headdesked |
| you | have headdesked |
| he;she;it | have headdesked |
| we | have headdesked |
| you | have headdesked |
| they | have headdesked |
Imperfect
| I | headdesked |
| you | headdesked |
| he;she;it | headdesked |
| we | headdesked |
| you | headdesked |
| they | headdesked |
Pluperfect
| I | had headdesked |
| you | had headdesked |
| he;she;it | had headdesked |
| we | had headdesked |
| you | had headdesked |
| they | had headdesked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would headdesk |
| you | would headdesk |
| he;she;it | would headdesk |
| we | would headdesk |
| you | would headdesk |
| they | would headdesk |
Perfect
| I | would have headdesked |
| you | would have headdesked |
| he;she;it | would have headdesked |
| we | would have headdesked |
| you | would have headdesked |
| they | would have headdesked |
Imperative
| you | headdesk |
| we | Let's headdesk |
| you | headdesk |
Verbs conjugated like 'headdesk'
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 'headdesk'
header,
hot-desk,
hotdesk,
readdress,
adde,
addeem,
addend,
address,
badden,
bedeck,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From head + desk.
Sample Sentences
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Hopefully this will save someone else some head-desking; I'll see about writing up a patch for the docs describing this (unless I discover that I've been blind and this is, indeed, documented somewhere). :-D [2006 August 8, Tom Tobin, “Re: MR: _manipulator_validate_FIELD() methods?”, in django-users (Usenet), retrieved 08 Feb 2017, message-ID <[email protected]>:]
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In no time at all you'll be headdesking just like a dog trainer, wailing at people's misinterpretations of their dogs. [2011, Jolanta Benal, The Dog Trainer's Complete Guide to a Happy, Well-Behaved Pet, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 145:]
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The only reason I am not actually headdesking at him right now is because I have apparently devoted a disproportionate amount of migraine space to him already, and I wouldn't want to have my indignation at fictional characters distributed unfairly, quelle horreur! [2014, Leigh Butler, Re-Reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Tor, →ISBN:]
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She made them tell her everything, then had Ellis re-explain in layman's terms while I sat there mentally headdesking. [2015, Leah Raeder, Cam Girl, Atria, →ISBN:]