Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to freak
Participle: freaked
Gerund: freaking
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | freak |
| you | freak |
| he;she;it | freaks |
| we | freak |
| you | freak |
| they | freak |
Perfect
| I | have freaked |
| you | have freaked |
| he;she;it | has freaked |
| we | have freaked |
| you | have freaked |
| they | have freaked |
Past
| I | freaked |
| you | freaked |
| he;she;it | freaked |
| we | freaked |
| you | freaked |
| they | freaked |
Pluperfect
| I | had freaked |
| you | had freaked |
| he;she;it | had freaked |
| we | had freaked |
| you | had freaked |
| they | had freaked |
Future
| I | will freak |
| you | will freak |
| he;she;it | will freak |
| we | will freak |
| you | will freak |
| they | will freak |
Future Perfect
| I | will have freaked |
| you | will have freaked |
| he;she;it | will have freaked |
| we | will have freaked |
| you | will have freaked |
| they | will have freaked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | freak |
| you | freak |
| he;she;it | freak |
| we | freak |
| you | freak |
| they | freak |
Perfect
| I | have freaked |
| you | have freaked |
| he;she;it | have freaked |
| we | have freaked |
| you | have freaked |
| they | have freaked |
Imperfect
| I | freaked |
| you | freaked |
| he;she;it | freaked |
| we | freaked |
| you | freaked |
| they | freaked |
Pluperfect
| I | had freaked |
| you | had freaked |
| he;she;it | had freaked |
| we | had freaked |
| you | had freaked |
| they | had freaked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would freak |
| you | would freak |
| he;she;it | would freak |
| we | would freak |
| you | would freak |
| they | would freak |
Perfect
| I | would have freaked |
| you | would have freaked |
| he;she;it | would have freaked |
| we | would have freaked |
| you | would have freaked |
| they | would have freaked |
Imperative
| you | freak |
| we | Let's freak |
| you | freak |
Verbs conjugated like 'freak'
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 'freak'
break,
creak,
feak,
frak,
freck,
wreak,
aread,
arear,
beak,
bread,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1. 1563, "sudden turn of mind," probably related to O.E. frician "to dance" (not recorded in M.E., but the word may have survived in dialect), or perhaps from M.E. frek "bold, quickly," from O.E. frec "greedy, gluttonous." Sense of "capricious notion" (1563) and "unusual thing, fancy" (1784) preceded that in freak of nature (1847). The verb freak out is first attested 1965 in Amer.Eng., from freak (n.) "drug user" (1945), but the verb meaning "change, distort" goes back to 1911, and the sense in health freak, ecology freak, etc. is attested from 1908.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *preg-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
5. Proto-Germanic *-az
6. Proto-Germanic *frekaz
7. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
12. Proto-Germanic *-ōną
13. Proto-Germanic *frekōną
14. Proto-West Germanic *frekōn
15. Old English frician?
16. Old English frīcian
17. Middle English friken?
18. ▲
19. Proto-Germanic *frekaz
20. Proto-West Germanic *frek
21. Old English frec
22. English frekder.?
23. English freak
24. First attested in 1567. The sense "sudden change of mind, a whim" is of uncertain origin. Probably from a dialectal word related to Middle English frekynge (“capricious behavior; whims”) and Middle English friken, frikien (“to move briskly or nimbly”), from Old English frīcian (“to leap, dance”), or Middle English frek (“insolent, daring”), from Old English frec (“desirous, greedy, eager, bold, daring”), from Proto-West Germanic *frek, from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, *frakaz (“hard, efficient, greedy, bold, audacious”) (in which case, it would be related to the noun under etymology 2). Compare Old High German freh (“eager”), Old English frēcne (“dangerous”).
25. For the meaning development compare Russian заско́к (zaskók) akin to ско́к (skók), скака́ть (skakátʹ).