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tick down

tick down verb: to count the time down to zero.

Verb

tick down (third-person singular simple present ticks down, present participle ticking down, simple past and past participle ticked down)

  1. To count the time down to zero.
    • City, predictably, subjected Villa to a sustained spell of pressure as the clock ticked down - and the home team hada [sic] double escape with eight minutes left. De Jong's shot was unwittingly deflected on to his own post by Clark and then Dzeko headed Johnson's cross wide at the far post when he...2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC

Forms of tick down

third-person singular presentticks down
present participleticking down
past participleticked down
pastticked down

Questions about tick down

What does tick down mean?
Tick down means to count the time down to zero.
What part of speech is tick down?
Tick down is a verb.
What is the past tense of tick down?
The past tense of tick down is ticked down.

Words near tick down in the dictionary

  1. tick bite
  2. tick bites
  3. tick box
  4. tick boxes
  5. tick by
  6. tick down
  7. tick fever
  8. tick mark
  9. tick marks
  10. tick meat allergy
  11. tick off

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