sicked
SaySIKT/sɪkt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of sick.
The guard sicked the patrol dogs on the trespassers.
He had sicked his terriers on the rats before the others arrived.
Note
One regular past form serves several verbs. When dogs are sicked on trespassers, it belongs to a rare spelling of sic, "to set upon," and it usually takes on before the target. The same spelling also covers the colloquial British and Australian verb meaning "to vomit" and the intransitive "to fall sick." Context, not form, tells them apart: sicked on someone is an attack, not an illness.
sicked is a form of sick
sick, verb: To fall ill; to begin to suffer from disease. Full entry
- Spelling
- sick → sicked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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