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tick past

tick past verb: to continue over time.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive, time or time-keeping devices) To continue over time.
    • The years just continue to tick past.
    • The bad election results kept coming in, ticking past me one by one on the bottom of the television screen.

Forms of tick past

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

Questions about tick past

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

Words near tick past in the dictionary

  1. tick meat allergy
  2. tick off
  3. tick on
  4. tick over
  5. tick paralysis
  6. tick past
  7. tick tack
  8. tick tacks
  9. tick tat toe
  10. tick tock
  11. tick tocks

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