Thesaurus / chicken out
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synonyms for chicken out
- avoid
- back down
- back out
- back pedal
- beg off
- blow it off
- bow out
- cancel
- cop out
- funk out
- get cold feet
- give up
- give way
- go back on
- have no stomach for
- make concessions
- pull out
- recant
- renege
- resign
- scratch
- shy from
- surrender
- throw in the towel
- turn yellow
- weasel out
- wiggle out
- wimp out
- withdraw
- worm out
- yield
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chicken out, such as: avoid, back down, back out, back-pedal, beg off, and blow it off.
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How to use chicken out in a sentence
Well, I'll bet you can't get a chicken out of our barn 'thout our Dog gettin' you, Mr. Smarty.
TWO LITTLE SAVAGESERNEST THOMPSON SETONIt was like the grip of home, and the lost Earth, and the fear that he would chicken out and return.
THE PLANET STRAPPERSRAYMOND ZINKE GALLUNThe puzzle was to make a chicken out of an orange with four cuts of the scissors and the prick of a pin.
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, MARCH 30, 1880VARIOUSAll I need do is to wait right here around the corner, and if he brings a chicken out, I'll simply tell him to drop it.
BOWSER THE HOUNDTHORNTON W. BURGESSWith amusing bluntness he sent the chicken out to be killed before he ate it, complaining that the eggs were not hard enough.
BLAZING THE WAYEMILY INEZ DENNYThe pretty dog, finding himself treated in this way, soon dropped the chicken out of his mouth.
DICK AND HIS CAT AND OTHER TALESVARIOUSAnd although she could without difficulty have taken the chicken out with her bill, yet she did not do it.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD, VOL. X, OCTOBER 1869VARIOUSTheres a deaf and dumb chicken out here, Gibbs replied anxiously.
UNDER COVERROI COOPER MEGRUEThe object is not to hurry the chicken out of its shell, but to prevent its being suffocated by being close shut up within it.
POULTRYHUGH PIPERHe will not steal your best game-chicken out of the top of the tree again.
A BREEZE FROM THE WOODS, 2ND ED.WILLIAM CHAUNCEY BARTLETTWORDS RELATED TO CHICKEN OUT
- abdicate
- back out
- bail out
- bow out
- chicken out
- cop out
- cut loose
- desert
- discard
- discontinue
- ditch
- drop
- drop out
- duck
- dump
- dust
- flake out
- fly the coop
- give up the ship
- kiss goodbye
- leave
- leg it
- let go
- opt out
- pull out
- quit
- run out on
- screw
- ship out
- stop
- storm out
- surrender
- take a powder
- take a walk
- throw over
- vacate
- walk out on
- wash hands of
- withdraw
- yield
- abandon
- accede
- acquiesce
- admit
- back off
- back out
- back pedal
- backtrack
- balk
- beg off
- bow out
- cancel
- cave in
- chicken out
- concede
- cop out
- demur
- give ground
- give in
- give up
- go back on
- have no fight left
- hold back
- pull back
- pull out
- recant
- recoil
- renege
- resign
- retreat
- submit
- surrender
- take back
- wimp out
- withdraw
- withdraw from agreement or statement
- yield
- advise against
- caution against
- chicken out
- counsel
- cry out against
- deprecate
- derail
- deter
- disadvise
- discourage
- disincline
- divert
- exhort
- expostulate
- faze
- hinder
- lean on
- persuade not to
- prevent
- prick
- put off
- remonstrate
- throw a wet blanket on
- throw cold water on
- throw off
- thwart
- turn off
- urge not to
- warn
- advised against
- caution against
- chickened out
- counselled
- cried out against
- deprecated
- derailed
- deterred
- disadvised
- discouraged
- disinclined
- diverted
- exhorted
- expostulated
- fazed
- hindered
- lean on
- persuaded not to
- prevented
- pricked
- put off
- remonstrated
- threw a wet blanket on
- threw cold water on
- threw off
- thwarted
- turned off
- urged not to
- warned
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.