Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to caracole
Participle: caracoled
Gerund: caracoling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | caracole |
| you | caracole |
| he;she;it | caracoles |
| we | caracole |
| you | caracole |
| they | caracole |
Perfect
| I | have caracoled |
| you | have caracoled |
| he;she;it | has caracoled |
| we | have caracoled |
| you | have caracoled |
| they | have caracoled |
Past
| I | caracoled |
| you | caracoled |
| he;she;it | caracoled |
| we | caracoled |
| you | caracoled |
| they | caracoled |
Pluperfect
| I | had caracoled |
| you | had caracoled |
| he;she;it | had caracoled |
| we | had caracoled |
| you | had caracoled |
| they | had caracoled |
Future
| I | will caracole |
| you | will caracole |
| he;she;it | will caracole |
| we | will caracole |
| you | will caracole |
| they | will caracole |
Future Perfect
| I | will have caracoled |
| you | will have caracoled |
| he;she;it | will have caracoled |
| we | will have caracoled |
| you | will have caracoled |
| they | will have caracoled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | caracole |
| you | caracole |
| he;she;it | caracole |
| we | caracole |
| you | caracole |
| they | caracole |
Perfect
| I | have caracoled |
| you | have caracoled |
| he;she;it | have caracoled |
| we | have caracoled |
| you | have caracoled |
| they | have caracoled |
Imperfect
| I | caracoled |
| you | caracoled |
| he;she;it | caracoled |
| we | caracoled |
| you | caracoled |
| they | caracoled |
Pluperfect
| I | had caracoled |
| you | had caracoled |
| he;she;it | had caracoled |
| we | had caracoled |
| you | had caracoled |
| they | had caracoled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would caracole |
| you | would caracole |
| he;she;it | would caracole |
| we | would caracole |
| you | would caracole |
| they | would caracole |
Perfect
| I | would have caracoled |
| you | would have caracoled |
| he;she;it | would have caracoled |
| we | would have caracoled |
| you | would have caracoled |
| they | would have caracoled |
Imperative
| you | caracole |
| we | Let's caracole |
| you | caracole |
Verbs conjugated like 'caracole'
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 'caracole'
caracol,
carambole,
crackle,
arace,
barnacle,
cackle,
cajole,
calcule,
capriole,
carabine,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from French caracole (noun, literally “snail's shell”), caracoler (verb).
Sample Sentences
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Prince John, upon a grey and high-mettled palfrey, caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party, laughing loud with his train, and eyeing with all the boldness of royal criticism the beauties who adorned the lofty galleries. [1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:]
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1884, Robert Black (translator), François Guizot, Henriette Elizabeth Guizot de Witt, The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848, Volume 1, John B. Alden, page 259,
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Finally he went out of church and caracoled about on the open, at the foot of the castle, in presence of the people eager to have their share in the spectacle.
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[…]the noble bishop caracolled in the presence, on a well-trained war-horse, which the right reverend father in God bestrode in a lay habit of purple, jack-boots, his hat cocked, and his black wig tied up behind in true military fashion. [1877, John Doran, London in the Jacobite Times, Volume 1, Richard Bentley & Son, page 364:]
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Sir Charles Oman's book mentions no instance where caracoling cavalry succeeded unaided in breaking a resolute body of infantry standing firm to receive them. [1937, The Cavalry Journal, Volume 27, page 601:]
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2010, Peter H. Wilson (translator and editor), The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook, Macmillan Publishers (Palgrave Macmillan), page 67,
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The proper way, which I often explained to them, was too reject the bad habit of caracolling when facing the enemy.