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deep sixed

deep sixed is the simple past and past participle of deep six.

Meaning of deep six

Verb

deep six (third-person singular simple present deep sixes, present participle deep sixing, simple past and past participle deep sixed)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To discard, get rid of, or cancel; to completely put an end to something.
    • They had put many hundreds of hours into the project before it was deep-sixed by management.
  2. (idiomatic, informal, transitive, uncommon) To submerge (something) in water.

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Questions about deep sixed

What is deep sixed the simple past and past participle of?
Deep sixed is the simple past and past participle of deep six.

Words near deep sixed in the dictionary

  1. Deep River
  2. deep scattering layer
  3. deep sea
  4. deep seas
  5. deep six
  6. deep sixed
  7. deep sixes
  8. deep sixing
  9. deep sleep
  10. deep sleeps
  11. deep song

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deep sixed (page history and authors); deep six (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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