chickenize: meaning & examples

Meanings:

• 1.

  chiefly North Americaninformalcolloquial
  • To cause a person to become cowardly or timid; to make someone back out of a planned action by instilling fear.
  • To render an action or plan unlikely to be carried out by inducing apprehension or timidity.

  Examples

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  • The scary stories about the haunted house chickenized the kids, so none of them wanted to go inside.

    The scary stories about the haunted house chickenized the kids, so none of them wanted to go inside.

  • I tried to convince him to join the hike, but he was chickenized by the steep trails and backed out at the last minute.

    I tried to convince him to join the hike, but he was chickenized by the steep trails and backed out at the last minute.

  • They chickenized the volunteers by exaggerating the risks involved in the event.

    They chickenized the volunteers by exaggerating the risks involved in the event.