Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to silhouette
Participle: silhouetted
Gerund: silhouetting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | silhouette |
| you | silhouette |
| he;she;it | silhouettes |
| we | silhouette |
| you | silhouette |
| they | silhouette |
Perfect
| I | have silhouetted |
| you | have silhouetted |
| he;she;it | has silhouetted |
| we | have silhouetted |
| you | have silhouetted |
| they | have silhouetted |
Past
| I | silhouetted |
| you | silhouetted |
| he;she;it | silhouetted |
| we | silhouetted |
| you | silhouetted |
| they | silhouetted |
Pluperfect
| I | had silhouetted |
| you | had silhouetted |
| he;she;it | had silhouetted |
| we | had silhouetted |
| you | had silhouetted |
| they | had silhouetted |
Future
| I | will silhouette |
| you | will silhouette |
| he;she;it | will silhouette |
| we | will silhouette |
| you | will silhouette |
| they | will silhouette |
Future Perfect
| I | will have silhouetted |
| you | will have silhouetted |
| he;she;it | will have silhouetted |
| we | will have silhouetted |
| you | will have silhouetted |
| they | will have silhouetted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | silhouette |
| you | silhouette |
| he;she;it | silhouette |
| we | silhouette |
| you | silhouette |
| they | silhouette |
Perfect
| I | have silhouetted |
| you | have silhouetted |
| he;she;it | have silhouetted |
| we | have silhouetted |
| you | have silhouetted |
| they | have silhouetted |
Imperfect
| I | silhouetted |
| you | silhouetted |
| he;she;it | silhouetted |
| we | silhouetted |
| you | silhouetted |
| they | silhouetted |
Pluperfect
| I | had silhouetted |
| you | had silhouetted |
| he;she;it | had silhouetted |
| we | had silhouetted |
| you | had silhouetted |
| they | had silhouetted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would silhouette |
| you | would silhouette |
| he;she;it | would silhouette |
| we | would silhouette |
| you | would silhouette |
| they | would silhouette |
Perfect
| I | would have silhouetted |
| you | would have silhouetted |
| he;she;it | would have silhouetted |
| we | would have silhouetted |
| you | would have silhouetted |
| they | would have silhouetted |
Imperative
| you | silhouette |
| we | Let's silhouette |
| you | silhouette |
Verbs conjugated like 'silhouette'
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 'silhouette'
pirouette,
ablaqueate,
ballotte,
bilocate,
cigarette,
coquette,
dilute,
dishonest,
dishouse,
elaqueate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is a unadapted borrowing from French silhouette, from the surname of Étienne de Silhouette (1709–1767), France’s Controller-General of Finances. It has been suggested that the word refers to one or more of the following:
2. * De Silhouette’s penny-pinching policies which led to the French term à la Silhouette, applied to things perceived as austere or cheap, akin to an outline filled only with black.
3. * The fact that de Silhouette only held the office of Controller-General of Finances for about eight months from 4 March to 21 November 1759.
4. * De Silhouette’s outline portraits which he made to decorate his château at Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne.
5. De Silhouette’s surname is a gallicized form of Basque Ziloeta or Zilhoeta (modern Basque Zulueta), from the local plural stem (see -ak) of zulo (“hole, pit; den, hiding place”), from Proto-Basque *zuLo (“hole”).
6. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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We guided ourselves, by the fitful flashes of forked and sheet lightning combined, towards a ghostly point, whose deeper blackness silhouetted it against the shades. [1876, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “To Sánga-Tánga and Back”, in Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. […], part I (The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, […], →OCLC, page 137:]
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[N]ot only the passing figure of the young girl was seen, but the dazzling green and gold of the hillside, and the far-off silhouetted crests of the Coast Range. [1882, Bret Harte, “Flip: A California Romance. Chapter III.”, in Flip; and Found at Blazing Star, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 53:]
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Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil. [1929 July, Robert Dean Frisbie, “The Fine Art of Trading”, in The Book of Puka-Puka, New York, N.Y.; London: The Century Co., →OCLC, section II, page 37:]
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Driving 2-6-2 locomotive No. 4771 Green Arrow, Blunt suddenly noticed that the tunnel mouth was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering down in their hundreds, he slammed on all his brakes and brought his train to a stop just inside the tunnel. [1944 July–August, “Top Link Drivers: XXI—Driver H. Blunt, L.N.E.R.”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 226:]
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[T]he distant islands […] lay dark and massive across our path, their huge crowns silhouetting in clear-cut outlines against the eastern sky, […] [1884 June, “The North Shore”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXIX, number CCCCIX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 110, column 2:]