Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sling
Participle: slung
Gerund: slinging
Indicative
Present
| I | sling |
| you | sling |
| he;she;it | slings |
| we | sling |
| you | sling |
| they | sling |
Perfect
| I | have slung |
| you | have slung |
| he;she;it | has slung |
| we | have slung |
| you | have slung |
| they | have slung |
Past
| I | slung |
| you | slung |
| he;she;it | slung |
| we | slung |
| you | slung |
| they | slung |
Pluperfect
| I | had slung |
| you | had slung |
| he;she;it | had slung |
| we | had slung |
| you | had slung |
| they | had slung |
Future
| I | will sling |
| you | will sling |
| he;she;it | will sling |
| we | will sling |
| you | will sling |
| they | will sling |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slung |
| you | will have slung |
| he;she;it | will have slung |
| we | will have slung |
| you | will have slung |
| they | will have slung |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sling |
| you | sling |
| he;she;it | sling |
| we | sling |
| you | sling |
| they | sling |
Perfect
| I | have slung |
| you | have slung |
| he;she;it | have slung |
| we | have slung |
| you | have slung |
| they | have slung |
Imperfect
| I | slung |
| you | slung |
| he;she;it | slung |
| we | slung |
| you | slung |
| they | slung |
Pluperfect
| I | had slung |
| you | had slung |
| he;she;it | had slung |
| we | had slung |
| you | had slung |
| they | had slung |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sling |
| you | would sling |
| he;she;it | would sling |
| we | would sling |
| you | would sling |
| they | would sling |
Perfect
| I | would have slung |
| you | would have slung |
| he;she;it | would have slung |
| we | would have slung |
| you | would have slung |
| they | would have slung |
Imperative
| you | sling |
| we | Let's sling |
| you | sling |
Verbs conjugated like 'sling'
cling,
dig,
fling,
hamstring,
sling,
slink,
stick,
sting,
string,
swing,
underdig,
unstick,
unstring,
wring,
foind,
outfling,
overswing,
restick,
restring,
undersling, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sling'
cling,
fling,
sing,
slang,
slink,
sting,
swing,
aline,
bing,
blin,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to cause an object to move rapidly through the air
- cast, chuck, feck, fling, hurl, launch, lob, pitch, shy, skew, throw, toss
- throw
- chuck, pitch, heave, fling, hurl, toss, send, launch
- suspend
- hang, swing, hoist, dangle, depend, weigh
Antonyms
- suspend
- extend, prolong, sustain, maintain
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "sweet flavored liquor drink," 1807, Amer.Eng., of unknown origin; perhaps lit. "to throw back" a drink, or from Ger.
schlingen "to swallow."
2. From Middle English slynge (noun), slyngen (verb), probably from Old Norse slyngja, slyngva (“to hurl”), from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną (“to worm, twist”) or compare Old English slingan (“to wind, twist”), from the same source.
3. Compare German schlingen (“to swing, wind, twist”), Danish and Norwegian slynge), from Proto-Indo-European *slenk- (“to turn, twist”) (compare Welsh llyngyr (“worms, maggots”), Lithuanian sliñkti (“to crawl like a snake”), Latvian slìkt (“to sink”)). See: Proto-Germanic '
*slingwaną', Old English '
slingan', German, old spelling '
schlingen'.
Verbs referencing "sling"
German, old spelling
schlingen, Dutch
slingen, German, old spelling
schlingern.
Sample Sentences
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[...] persons, who scrambled on board at the peril of their lives as we approached the wharf, were newsmen, answering to that industrious class at home; whereas, despite the leathern wallets of news slung about the necks of some, and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were Editors, who boarded ships in person (as one gentleman in a worsted comforter informed me ), ‘because they liked the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] fellow enough, strongly built and well made, but by no means sober: indeed he had all the air of a man who had been more or less drunk for some days. He carried a small bundle over his shoulder, slung at the end of a walking-stick, and had a short pipe in his mouth. He was as dusty and dirty as recruits usually are, and his shoes betokened that he had travelled on foot some distance, but he was [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)