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ticked past

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

Meaning of tick past

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.

Questions about ticked past

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

Words near ticked past in the dictionary

  1. ticked by
  2. ticked down
  3. ticked off
  4. ticked on
  5. ticked over
  6. ticked past
  7. tickee
  8. tickees
  9. ticker
  10. ticker symbol
  11. ticker symbols

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