Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to chicken
Participle: chickened
Gerund: chickening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | chicken |
| you | chicken |
| he;she;it | chickens |
| we | chicken |
| you | chicken |
| they | chicken |
Perfect
| I | have chickened |
| you | have chickened |
| he;she;it | has chickened |
| we | have chickened |
| you | have chickened |
| they | have chickened |
Past
| I | chickened |
| you | chickened |
| he;she;it | chickened |
| we | chickened |
| you | chickened |
| they | chickened |
Pluperfect
| I | had chickened |
| you | had chickened |
| he;she;it | had chickened |
| we | had chickened |
| you | had chickened |
| they | had chickened |
Future
| I | will chicken |
| you | will chicken |
| he;she;it | will chicken |
| we | will chicken |
| you | will chicken |
| they | will chicken |
Future Perfect
| I | will have chickened |
| you | will have chickened |
| he;she;it | will have chickened |
| we | will have chickened |
| you | will have chickened |
| they | will have chickened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | chicken |
| you | chicken |
| he;she;it | chicken |
| we | chicken |
| you | chicken |
| they | chicken |
Perfect
| I | have chickened |
| you | have chickened |
| he;she;it | have chickened |
| we | have chickened |
| you | have chickened |
| they | have chickened |
Imperfect
| I | chickened |
| you | chickened |
| he;she;it | chickened |
| we | chickened |
| you | chickened |
| they | chickened |
Pluperfect
| I | had chickened |
| you | had chickened |
| he;she;it | had chickened |
| we | had chickened |
| you | had chickened |
| they | had chickened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would chicken |
| you | would chicken |
| he;she;it | would chicken |
| we | would chicken |
| you | would chicken |
| they | would chicken |
Perfect
| I | would have chickened |
| you | would have chickened |
| he;she;it | would have chickened |
| we | would have chickened |
| you | would have chickened |
| they | would have chickened |
Imperative
| you | chicken |
| we | Let's chicken |
| you | chicken |
Verbs conjugated like 'chicken'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'chicken'
thicken,
blicken,
chalken,
checker,
chick,
cricket,
quicken,
sicken,
slicken,
whicker,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Shortening of chicken out.
Verbs referencing "chicken"
Japanese
チキる.
Sample Sentences
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For the umpteenth time, I chickened. [1964, Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →OCLC, page 31:]
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ABE: What are you chucking it for, then? You're running, aren't you? Running, cos you chickened.
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SLIM: All right, so I chickened. [1968, Aidan Chambers, The Chicken Run: A Play for Young People, Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers, →ISBN, act II, scene v, page 81:]
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To reach the lower branches of the blackwood one had to swing Tarzan-like across a narrow gully choked with gorse and blackberries. […] [T]he challenge of the rope swing was definitely more in James' line. […] Even if he slipped and failed, or worse, chickened, they would be unlikely to judge too harshly. [2014, Anne M. Brown, “James Day”, in Belonging: The Story of How James Became a Brown, Acacia Ridge, Qld.: Australian eBook Publisher, →ISBN:]