Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to scribe
Participle: scribed
Gerund: scribing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | scribe |
| you | scribe |
| he;she;it | scribes |
| we | scribe |
| you | scribe |
| they | scribe |
Perfect
| I | have scribed |
| you | have scribed |
| he;she;it | has scribed |
| we | have scribed |
| you | have scribed |
| they | have scribed |
Past
| I | scribed |
| you | scribed |
| he;she;it | scribed |
| we | scribed |
| you | scribed |
| they | scribed |
Pluperfect
| I | had scribed |
| you | had scribed |
| he;she;it | had scribed |
| we | had scribed |
| you | had scribed |
| they | had scribed |
Future
| I | will scribe |
| you | will scribe |
| he;she;it | will scribe |
| we | will scribe |
| you | will scribe |
| they | will scribe |
Future Perfect
| I | will have scribed |
| you | will have scribed |
| he;she;it | will have scribed |
| we | will have scribed |
| you | will have scribed |
| they | will have scribed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | scribe |
| you | scribe |
| he;she;it | scribe |
| we | scribe |
| you | scribe |
| they | scribe |
Perfect
| I | have scribed |
| you | have scribed |
| he;she;it | have scribed |
| we | have scribed |
| you | have scribed |
| they | have scribed |
Imperfect
| I | scribed |
| you | scribed |
| he;she;it | scribed |
| we | scribed |
| you | scribed |
| they | scribed |
Pluperfect
| I | had scribed |
| you | had scribed |
| he;she;it | had scribed |
| we | had scribed |
| you | had scribed |
| they | had scribed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would scribe |
| you | would scribe |
| he;she;it | would scribe |
| we | would scribe |
| you | would scribe |
| they | would scribe |
Perfect
| I | would have scribed |
| you | would have scribed |
| he;she;it | would have scribed |
| we | would have scribed |
| you | would have scribed |
| they | would have scribed |
Imperative
| you | scribe |
| we | Let's scribe |
| you | scribe |
Verbs conjugated like 'scribe'
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 'scribe'
ascribe,
escribe,
scrike,
scrive,
bribe,
crib,
crime,
describe,
exscribe,
inscribe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English scryben (“to write”), from Latin scrībō (“to write”). Doublet of shrive.
2. The carpentry sense comes from the way a workman uses a compass to mark a line before cutting. See: Latin '
scrībō'.
Verbs referencing "scribe"
German, Pennsylvania
schreiwe.
Sample Sentences
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There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale. [c. 1597–1598, Edmund Spenser, “Two Cantos of Mutabilitie: […]. Book VII, Canto VI.”, in The Faerie Queene, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, published 1609, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 356:]
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he scribed his name on the mould, and wrote it on the two pieces of pasteboard [1812, anonymous author, The Trial:]
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There was the curious fascination expressed regarding the triangular relationship between the poor white, the black, and the hookworm — suggesting a desire to differentiate and segregate the poor white body from that of the black and to scribe more boldly what was often, for the poorest people of the South, a very thin line. [2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 121:]