sheathe

Other forms of sheathe

past tense

sheathed·

present participle

sheathing·

third person

sheathes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sheathe

What does sheathe mean?

sheathe means "cover with a protective sheathing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sheathe?

sheathe has 1 syllable: sheathe. In IPA it is /ˈʃið/.

What is the opposite of sheathe?

The recorded antonyms are unsheathe.

Is sheathe a common word?

sheathe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.