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scomfish

scomfish verb: to suffocate, stifle, or smother.

Verb

scomfish (third-person singular simple present scomfishes, present participle scomfishing, simple past and past participle scomfished)

  1. (Scotland, archaic, intransitive, transitive) To suffocate, stifle, or smother.

Forms of scomfish

third-person singular presentscomfishes
present participlescomfishing
past participlescomfished
pastscomfished

Origin of scomfish

From scomfit, from discomfit.

Questions about scomfish

What does scomfish mean?
Scomfish means to suffocate, stifle, or smother.
What part of speech is scomfish?
Scomfish is a verb.
What is the past tense of scomfish?
The past tense of scomfish is scomfished.

Words near scomfish in the dictionary

  1. scombroids
  2. scombrolabracid
  3. scombrolabracids
  4. scombropid
  5. scombropids
  6. scomfish
  7. scomfished
  8. scomfishes
  9. scomfishing
  10. scomfit
  11. scomfiting

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