Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hackle
Participle: hackled
Gerund: hackling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hackle |
| you | hackle |
| he;she;it | hackles |
| we | hackle |
| you | hackle |
| they | hackle |
Perfect
| I | have hackled |
| you | have hackled |
| he;she;it | has hackled |
| we | have hackled |
| you | have hackled |
| they | have hackled |
Past
| I | hackled |
| you | hackled |
| he;she;it | hackled |
| we | hackled |
| you | hackled |
| they | hackled |
Pluperfect
| I | had hackled |
| you | had hackled |
| he;she;it | had hackled |
| we | had hackled |
| you | had hackled |
| they | had hackled |
Future
| I | will hackle |
| you | will hackle |
| he;she;it | will hackle |
| we | will hackle |
| you | will hackle |
| they | will hackle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hackled |
| you | will have hackled |
| he;she;it | will have hackled |
| we | will have hackled |
| you | will have hackled |
| they | will have hackled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hackle |
| you | hackle |
| he;she;it | hackle |
| we | hackle |
| you | hackle |
| they | hackle |
Perfect
| I | have hackled |
| you | have hackled |
| he;she;it | have hackled |
| we | have hackled |
| you | have hackled |
| they | have hackled |
Imperfect
| I | hackled |
| you | hackled |
| he;she;it | hackled |
| we | hackled |
| you | hackled |
| they | hackled |
Pluperfect
| I | had hackled |
| you | had hackled |
| he;she;it | had hackled |
| we | had hackled |
| you | had hackled |
| they | had hackled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hackle |
| you | would hackle |
| he;she;it | would hackle |
| we | would hackle |
| you | would hackle |
| they | would hackle |
Perfect
| I | would have hackled |
| you | would have hackled |
| he;she;it | would have hackled |
| we | would have hackled |
| you | would have hackled |
| they | would have hackled |
Imperative
| you | hackle |
| we | Let's hackle |
| you | hackle |
Verbs conjugated like 'hackle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hackle'
cackle,
chackle,
heckle,
hockle,
mackle,
rackle,
shackle,
tackle,
ankle,
buckle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.
Sample Sentences
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Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax. [1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 155:]
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the other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces [1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:]