Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lime
Participle: limed
Gerund: liming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lime |
| you | lime |
| he;she;it | limes |
| we | lime |
| you | lime |
| they | lime |
Perfect
| I | have limed |
| you | have limed |
| he;she;it | has limed |
| we | have limed |
| you | have limed |
| they | have limed |
Past
| I | limed |
| you | limed |
| he;she;it | limed |
| we | limed |
| you | limed |
| they | limed |
Pluperfect
| I | had limed |
| you | had limed |
| he;she;it | had limed |
| we | had limed |
| you | had limed |
| they | had limed |
Future
| I | will lime |
| you | will lime |
| he;she;it | will lime |
| we | will lime |
| you | will lime |
| they | will lime |
Future Perfect
| I | will have limed |
| you | will have limed |
| he;she;it | will have limed |
| we | will have limed |
| you | will have limed |
| they | will have limed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lime |
| you | lime |
| he;she;it | lime |
| we | lime |
| you | lime |
| they | lime |
Perfect
| I | have limed |
| you | have limed |
| he;she;it | have limed |
| we | have limed |
| you | have limed |
| they | have limed |
Imperfect
| I | limed |
| you | limed |
| he;she;it | limed |
| we | limed |
| you | limed |
| they | limed |
Pluperfect
| I | had limed |
| you | had limed |
| he;she;it | had limed |
| we | had limed |
| you | had limed |
| they | had limed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lime |
| you | would lime |
| he;she;it | would lime |
| we | would lime |
| you | would lime |
| they | would lime |
Perfect
| I | would have limed |
| you | would have limed |
| he;she;it | would have limed |
| we | would have limed |
| you | would have limed |
| they | would have limed |
Imperative
| you | lime |
| we | Let's lime |
| you | lime |
Verbs conjugated like 'lime'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lime'
dime,
lame,
leme,
lie,
lige,
like,
limb,
limn,
limp,
line,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "chalky mineral used in making mortar," from O.E. lim "sticky substance, birdlime, mortar," from P.Gmc. *leimaz (cf. O.N. lim, Du. lijm, Ger. Leim), from PIE base *(s)lei- "slime, slimy, sticky" (cf. L. limus "slime, mud, mire," linere "to smear;" O.E. slim "slime;" Skt. linati "adheres to, slips into, disappears;" Gk. alinein "to anoint, besmear;" O.Ir. leinam "I follow," lit. "I stick to"). Lime is made by putting limestone or shells in a red heat, which burns off the carbonic acid and leaves a brittle white solid which dissolves easily in water. Birdlime is a viscous sticky stuff prepared from holly bark and used to catch small birds. Limestone is first attested 1523.
2. From Middle English lyme, lym, lime, from Old English līm, from Proto-West Germanic *līm, from Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Liem (“glue”), Dutch lijm (“glue”), German Leim (“glue”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish lim (“glue”), Faroese and Icelandic lím (“glue”), Latin limus (“mud”).
Sample Sentences
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If I were you, I'd lime. [1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Land:]
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URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
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HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]
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Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn. [1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 39:]