Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to slime
Participle: slimed
Gerund: sliming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | slime |
| you | slime |
| he;she;it | slimes |
| we | slime |
| you | slime |
| they | slime |
Perfect
| I | have slimed |
| you | have slimed |
| he;she;it | has slimed |
| we | have slimed |
| you | have slimed |
| they | have slimed |
Past
| I | slimed |
| you | slimed |
| he;she;it | slimed |
| we | slimed |
| you | slimed |
| they | slimed |
Pluperfect
| I | had slimed |
| you | had slimed |
| he;she;it | had slimed |
| we | had slimed |
| you | had slimed |
| they | had slimed |
Future
| I | will slime |
| you | will slime |
| he;she;it | will slime |
| we | will slime |
| you | will slime |
| they | will slime |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slimed |
| you | will have slimed |
| he;she;it | will have slimed |
| we | will have slimed |
| you | will have slimed |
| they | will have slimed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | slime |
| you | slime |
| he;she;it | slime |
| we | slime |
| you | slime |
| they | slime |
Perfect
| I | have slimed |
| you | have slimed |
| he;she;it | have slimed |
| we | have slimed |
| you | have slimed |
| they | have slimed |
Imperfect
| I | slimed |
| you | slimed |
| he;she;it | slimed |
| we | slimed |
| you | slimed |
| they | slimed |
Pluperfect
| I | had slimed |
| you | had slimed |
| he;she;it | had slimed |
| we | had slimed |
| you | had slimed |
| they | had slimed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would slime |
| you | would slime |
| he;she;it | would slime |
| we | would slime |
| you | would slime |
| they | would slime |
Perfect
| I | would have slimed |
| you | would have slimed |
| he;she;it | would have slimed |
| we | would have slimed |
| you | would have slimed |
| they | would have slimed |
Imperative
| you | slime |
| we | Let's slime |
| you | slime |
Verbs conjugated like 'slime'
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 'slime'
lime,
slice,
slide,
slike,
slim,
slive,
aline,
belime,
beslime,
blame,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk slim, Swedish slem, Faroese and Icelandic slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).
Sample Sentences
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‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’ [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it. [2014, Sparkle Abbey, Fifty Shades of Greyhound:]
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If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day. [1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 20:]
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You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there. [2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel, →ISBN:]