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psych out

psych out verb: to outsmart.

Verb

psych out (third-person singular simple present psychs out, present participle psyching out, simple past and past participle psyched out)

  1. (informal, transitive) To outsmart.
  2. (informal, transitive) To unnerve.

Noun

psych out (plural psych outs)

  1. (informal) The act of unnerving somebody.

psych out meaning in Kannada

psych out in Kannada

ಮಾನಸಿಕವಾಗಿ ಚಿತ್ತಸ್ವಾಸ್ಥ್ಯ ಕಳೆದುಕೊ, ಬುದ್ಧಿಭ್ರಮಣೆ ಹೊಂದು

Forms of psych out

Verb
third-person singular presentpsychs out
present participlepsyching out
past participlepsyched out
pastpsyched out
Noun
pluralpsych outs

Origin of psych out

Recorded since 1934 (in sense of "outsmart"); from psych (short for psychology) + out.

Questions about psych out

What does psych out mean?
Psych out means to outsmart.
What is psych out in Kannada?
Psych out in Kannada is ಮಾನಸಿಕವಾಗಿ ಚಿತ್ತಸ್ವಾಸ್ಥ್ಯ ಕಳೆದುಕೊ, ಬುದ್ಧಿಭ್ರಮಣೆ ಹೊಂದು. See Psych out meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is psych out?
Psych out can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of psych out?
The past tense of psych out is psyched out.

Words near psych out in the dictionary

  1. psybient
  2. psych
  3. psych folk
  4. psych hospital
  5. psych hospitals
  6. psych out
  7. psych outs
  8. psych up
  9. psych verb
  10. psych verbs
  11. psych ward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psych out (page history and authors); psych out (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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