Meaning

3 senses

  1. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

  2. (transitive)To strike the top of (the ball).

  3. To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.

Examples

86 sentences

  1. The human skull consists of 23 bones.

    ruЧереп человека состоит из двадцати трёх костей. — corvard

    deDer menschliche Schädel besteht aus dreiundzwanzig Knochen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Are you out of your skull?

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  3. Tom was bored out of his skull.

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  4. Tom's skull was crushed when the building collapsed.

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  5. Tom has a tattoo of a skull on his chest.

    ruУ Тома на груди есть татуировка в виде черепа. — Wezel

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Origin

From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from a dialectal form

From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from a dialectal form of Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English sċealu (“husk”), to Proto-Norse *ᛋᚲᚨᛚᛟ (*skalo), from Proto-Germanic *skallô; compare Finnish kallo. Compare Scots scull, Danish skal (“skull”) and skalle (“bald head, skull”), Norwegian skalle, Swedish skalle and especially dialectal Swedish skulle.

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Forms

skulls, skulling, skulled, skulled
Base formskull · to skull
3rd person singularskulls
Present participleskulling
Past simpleskulled
Past participleskulled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyskull
he, she, itskulls

Past simpleLesson

all personsskulled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave skulled
he, she, ithas skulled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill skull

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
skuaskulkskunkskyA1

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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