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verb · irregular · transitive · rare

skittle out

skittle out · skittles out · skittled out · skittling out

To dismiss quicklyTo dismiss (batsmen) quickly.

» He only managed to bowl down one skittle out of nine.

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Meaning

1 senses

To dismiss (batsmen) quickly.
His team was skittled out for 34.

Examples

1 sentences

He only managed to bowl down one skittle out of nine.
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Forms

skittles out, skittling out, skittled out, skittled out

Base form	skittle out · to skittle out
3rd person singular	skittles out
Present participle	skittling out
Past simple	skittled out
Past participle	skittled out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	skittle out
he, she, it	skittles out

Past simpleLesson

all persons

skittled out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have skittled out
he, she, it	has skittled out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will skittle out

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

skit skittish skittle skive skivvy

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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