Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to muckrake
Participle: muckraked
Gerund: muckraking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | muckrake |
| you | muckrake |
| he;she;it | muckrakes |
| we | muckrake |
| you | muckrake |
| they | muckrake |
Perfect
| I | have muckraked |
| you | have muckraked |
| he;she;it | has muckraked |
| we | have muckraked |
| you | have muckraked |
| they | have muckraked |
Past
| I | muckraked |
| you | muckraked |
| he;she;it | muckraked |
| we | muckraked |
| you | muckraked |
| they | muckraked |
Pluperfect
| I | had muckraked |
| you | had muckraked |
| he;she;it | had muckraked |
| we | had muckraked |
| you | had muckraked |
| they | had muckraked |
Future
| I | will muckrake |
| you | will muckrake |
| he;she;it | will muckrake |
| we | will muckrake |
| you | will muckrake |
| they | will muckrake |
Future Perfect
| I | will have muckraked |
| you | will have muckraked |
| he;she;it | will have muckraked |
| we | will have muckraked |
| you | will have muckraked |
| they | will have muckraked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | muckrake |
| you | muckrake |
| he;she;it | muckrake |
| we | muckrake |
| you | muckrake |
| they | muckrake |
Perfect
| I | have muckraked |
| you | have muckraked |
| he;she;it | have muckraked |
| we | have muckraked |
| you | have muckraked |
| they | have muckraked |
Imperfect
| I | muckraked |
| you | muckraked |
| he;she;it | muckraked |
| we | muckraked |
| you | muckraked |
| they | muckraked |
Pluperfect
| I | had muckraked |
| you | had muckraked |
| he;she;it | had muckraked |
| we | had muckraked |
| you | had muckraked |
| they | had muckraked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would muckrake |
| you | would muckrake |
| he;she;it | would muckrake |
| we | would muckrake |
| you | would muckrake |
| they | would muckrake |
Perfect
| I | would have muckraked |
| you | would have muckraked |
| he;she;it | would have muckraked |
| we | would have muckraked |
| you | would have muckraked |
| they | would have muckraked |
Imperative
| you | muckrake |
| we | Let's muckrake |
| you | muckrake |
Verbs conjugated like 'muckrake'
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 'muckrake'
buckram,
crake,
macerate,
muckle,
munerate,
outbrake,
unbrake,
acrase,
acraze,
aucupate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From muck + rake.
Sample Sentences
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To think that he cares about nothing save the possibility of being found out and made ridiculous! All his friends have been ‘muckraked,’ as he calls it, and he has sat aloft and smiled over their plight; he was the landed gentleman, the true aristrocrat, whom the worries of traders and money-changers didn’t concern. [1914, Upton Sinclair, Sylvia's Marriage:]
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His book, published this month, combines the muckraking approach of Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” with the wry travelogue approach of a Michael Moore movie. [2020 September 24, Alex Williams, “The Ugly (and Glorious) Truth About American Supermarkets”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2020:]