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made tick

made tick is the simple past and past participle of make tick.

Meaning of make tick

Verb

make tick (third-person singular simple present makes tick, present participle making tick, simple past and past participle made tick)

  1. (colloquial) To cause someone or something to operate the way it does.
    • I honestly don't know the specifics that make him tick, and I wish I did.2005, Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, →ISBN, page 91
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, tick.

Questions about made tick

What is made tick the simple past and past participle of?
Made tick is the simple past and past participle of make tick.

Words near made tick in the dictionary

  1. made the weather
  2. made the welkin ring
  3. made the world go around
  4. made the wrong turn at Albuquerque
  5. made things interesting
  6. made tick
  7. made time
  8. made time with
  9. made to fade
  10. made tracks
  11. made trial of

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