streaken
English
Etymology
Verb
streaken (third-person singular simple present streakens, present participle streakening, simple past and past participle streakened)
- (ambitransitive) To mark or become marked with streaks.
- 2013, Anthony Ryan, Candle and Sun, page 123:
- Cullan stopped in his tracks...a double-decker bus made a large angular shadow against the now silver streakening cloudscape, incongruous in this reeded sandscape, like a boat in a desert.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstriː.kə(n)/, [ˈstɹiː.kə(n)]
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: strea‧ken
Verb
streaken
- (intransitive) to streak (to run naked in public, especially at sports games)
Conjugation
| Conjugation of streaken (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | streaken | |||
| past singular | streakte | |||
| past participle | gestreakt | |||
| infinitive | streaken | |||
| gerund | streaken n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | streak | streakte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | streakt, streak2 | streakte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | streakt | streakte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | streakt | streakte | ||
| 3rd person singular | streakt | streakte | ||
| plural | streaken | streakten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | streake | streakte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | streaken | streakten | ||
| imperative sing. | streak | |||
| imperative plur.1 | streakt | |||
| participles | streakend | gestreakt | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||