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psyched out

psyched out is the simple past and past participle of psych out.

Meaning of psych out

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.

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Questions about psyched out

What is psyched out the simple past and past participle of?
Psyched out is the simple past and past participle of psych out.

Words near psyched out in the dictionary

  1. psyche
  2. Psyche knot
  3. Psyche knots
  4. Psychean
  5. psyched
  6. psyched out
  7. psyched up
  8. psychedelia
  9. psychedelias
  10. psychedelic
  11. psychedelic circus

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