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ticking by

ticking by is the present participle and gerund 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 ticking by

What is ticking by the present participle and gerund of?
Ticking by is the present participle and gerund of tick by.

Words near ticking by in the dictionary

  1. ticking and toying
  2. ticking and tying
  3. ticking away
  4. ticking bomb
  5. ticking bombs
  6. ticking by
  7. ticking clock
  8. ticking clocks
  9. ticking down
  10. ticking off
  11. ticking on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticking 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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