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ticked by

ticked by is the simple past and past participle of tick by.

Meaning of tick by

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of tick past.
    • The minutes ticked by - nine, eight, seven. The screens behind both goals flashed up images of Scotland fans and their 1000-yard stares. Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport
    Synonyms:
    tick past

Questions about ticked by

What is ticked by the simple past and past participle of?
Ticked by is the simple past and past participle of tick by.

Words near ticked by in the dictionary

  1. ticked a lock
  2. ticked all the boxes
  3. ticked and tied
  4. ticked and toyed
  5. ticked away
  6. ticked by
  7. ticked down
  8. ticked off
  9. ticked on
  10. ticked over
  11. ticked past

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticked by (page history and authors); tick by (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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