Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to scrimp
Participle: scrimped
Gerund: scrimping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | scrimp |
| you | scrimp |
| he;she;it | scrimps |
| we | scrimp |
| you | scrimp |
| they | scrimp |
Perfect
| I | have scrimped |
| you | have scrimped |
| he;she;it | has scrimped |
| we | have scrimped |
| you | have scrimped |
| they | have scrimped |
Past
| I | scrimped |
| you | scrimped |
| he;she;it | scrimped |
| we | scrimped |
| you | scrimped |
| they | scrimped |
Pluperfect
| I | had scrimped |
| you | had scrimped |
| he;she;it | had scrimped |
| we | had scrimped |
| you | had scrimped |
| they | had scrimped |
Future
| I | will scrimp |
| you | will scrimp |
| he;she;it | will scrimp |
| we | will scrimp |
| you | will scrimp |
| they | will scrimp |
Future Perfect
| I | will have scrimped |
| you | will have scrimped |
| he;she;it | will have scrimped |
| we | will have scrimped |
| you | will have scrimped |
| they | will have scrimped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | scrimp |
| you | scrimp |
| he;she;it | scrimp |
| we | scrimp |
| you | scrimp |
| they | scrimp |
Perfect
| I | have scrimped |
| you | have scrimped |
| he;she;it | have scrimped |
| we | have scrimped |
| you | have scrimped |
| they | have scrimped |
Imperfect
| I | scrimped |
| you | scrimped |
| he;she;it | scrimped |
| we | scrimped |
| you | scrimped |
| they | scrimped |
Pluperfect
| I | had scrimped |
| you | had scrimped |
| he;she;it | had scrimped |
| we | had scrimped |
| you | had scrimped |
| they | had scrimped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would scrimp |
| you | would scrimp |
| he;she;it | would scrimp |
| we | would scrimp |
| you | would scrimp |
| they | would scrimp |
Perfect
| I | would have scrimped |
| you | would have scrimped |
| he;she;it | would have scrimped |
| we | would have scrimped |
| you | would have scrimped |
| they | would have scrimped |
Imperative
| you | scrimp |
| we | Let's scrimp |
| you | scrimp |
Verbs conjugated like 'scrimp'
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 'scrimp'
crimp,
scramp,
scrim,
scrump,
shrimp,
skrimp,
chimp,
cramp,
crim,
crime,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Scots scrimp (“meager”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”), from Old Dutch *scrimpan, from Frankish *skrimpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and sċrincan (“to shrivel up”). Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim. See: Proto-Germanic '
*skrimpaną'.
Verbs referencing "scrimp"
Dutch
schrimpen.
Sample Sentences
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to scrimp the pattern of a coat
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The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective.
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For, as a general thing, the English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
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There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, / There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead. [1886, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After”, in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After etc., London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 31:]
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“Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!” [1904, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest:]
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They had to scrimp each month to afford it out of pocket. [2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 334:]