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thicks

thicks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thick.

Meaning of thick

Verb

thick (third-person singular simple present thicks, present participle thicking, simple past and past participle thicked)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To thicken.
    • A wicked ambush , which lay hidden long In the close covert of her guilful eyen,
      Thence breaking forth , did thick about me throng1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC

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What is thicks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Thicks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thick.

Words near thicks in the dictionary

  1. thicknet
  2. thicknets
  3. thicko
  4. thickoes
  5. thickos
  6. thicks
  7. thickset
  8. thicksets
  9. thickshake
  10. thickshakes
  11. thickskin

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