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slike

slike verb: to crawl; creep; slide.

Verb (1)

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

  1. (intransitive) To crawl; creep; slide.

Verb (2)

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

  1. (transitive) To make sleek or smooth.

Verb (3)

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To rend asunder; cleave.

Forms of slike

third-person singular presentslikes
present participlesliking
past participlesliked
pastsliked

Origin of slike

From Middle English sliken, from Old English *slīcan (“to crawl, slink”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīkan, from Proto-Germanic *slīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Cognate with German Low German slieken (“to slink, crawl”), German schleichen (“to creep, crawl, slink, sneak”), Old English slīcian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”).

From Middle English sliken, slikien, from Old English slīcian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”). See above.

From Middle English *slīken, from Old English slīcan (“to strike”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīkan, from Proto-Germanic *slīkaną (“to hew, hammer, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to beat”). Cognate with Old Frisian slēc (“a shock, blow”), Middle Low German slîken (“to beat”), Old English sliċċ, sliċ (“beater, hammer, mallet”), Latin ligō, ligōnis (“hoe, mattock”).

Words formed from slike

Words that rhyme with slike

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Questions about slike

What does slike mean?
Slike means to crawl; creep; slide.
What part of speech is slike?
Slike is a verb.
What is the past tense of slike?
The past tense of slike is sliked.

Words near slike in the dictionary

  1. Sligoman
  2. Sligomen
  3. Sligoville
  4. Sligowoman
  5. Sligowomen
  6. slike
  7. sliked
  8. Sliker
  9. Slikers
  10. slikes
  11. sliking

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