psyching
SaySY-king/ˈsaɪkɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of psyche.
He sat alone in the locker room, psyching himself up for the final round.
The champion was busy psyching out her opponent with long, cold stares across the net.
Note
The verb psyche is another spelling of psych, and because psyche drops its final e before -ing, the two spellings meet in psyching, as they do in psyched. They part only in the base and -s forms: psyche and psyches beside psych and psychs. The form is at home in two phrasal verbs, psyching yourself up and psyching an opponent out.
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