psych
1or psyche
to make happily excited or full of eager anticipation: Your stories about Edinburgh have psyched me more than ever for my trip there next year!
to prepare mentally and emotionally so as to be in the right frame of mind to do one's best (often followed by up): He sat with his eyes closed in the aircraft, psyching himself for his first parachute jump.
to intimidate, make nervous, mislead, etc., in order to gain an advantage: A good chess player knows how to psych the opponent.
Sometimes sike . (used after deliberately misleading someone, to let them know they’ve been fooled):I’ve decided to put the house up for sale, and the agent is coming by in an hour . . . Psych!
psych out. See entry at psych-out.
psych up,
to prepare mentally and emotionally for a challenge: I have to psych myself up for the annual family reunion.
to create excitement and eager anticipation in: Beach parties, road trips, stargazing, barbecues—here are 10 tunes to psych you up for summer!
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psychology, especially as a course or field of study: She took two semesters of psych in college.
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psychedelic: stunning psych colors and patterns.
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variant of psycho- before some vowels: psychasthenia.
Other definitions for psych. (5 of 5)
psychological.
psychologist.
psychology.
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How to use psych in a sentence
Partly this is because they are dogs, and thus blessedly free from the tendency to psych themselves out.
I tend to be very hard on myself and I psych myself out when it’s time to disclose.
The Truth About Dating With Herpes, Women Tell All | Victoria Uwumarogie | May 28, 2021 | Essence.comOver tea at the Harvard Club, professor William Moulton Marston offered her a job — not in the classroom or psych lab, but in the office of his 43rd Street art studio.
Joye Hummel, first woman hired to write Wonder Woman comics, dies at 97 | Harrison Smith | April 8, 2021 | Washington PostThe available second-floor space had been Hillcrest, the psych ward that a number of the homeless associated with past traumas.
Deaths Among America's Homeless Are Soaring in the Pandemic. A Photographer Captures A Community In Crisis | Paul Moakley | April 3, 2021 | TimeIn a Minnesota VA psych ward, a veteran shoots himself in the head.
VA Pays $200 Million for Nearly 1,000 Veterans’ Wrongful Deaths | Aaron Glantz | April 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
psych was a show always keenly aware of its spot in the pop culture universe.
I Watched ‘Psych’ For 8 Years and All I Got Was This Lackluster Finale | Chancellor Agard | March 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter close to a two-year wait, psych: The Musical will finally air this Sunday on USA.
Why couldn't they find a psych bed anywhere in southwestern Virginia for Gus Deeds?
Every inmate admitted into the Arizona Department of Corrections is required to take a mandatory psych test.
Usually crews that had to wait hours before passing through psych raised a big fuss.
Unthinkable | Roger Phillips GrahamThat was the trouble with crews of ships when they thought they might be held up by psych over something.
Unthinkable | Roger Phillips GrahamThe psych man was wearing his Star Watcher helmet and had a B-gun strapped at his side.
What Rough Beast? | Jefferson HigheAnd if I involved myself in any conspiracy against the Lhari, they'd find it out in the routine psych-checking.
The Colors of Space | Marion Zimmer BradleyAnd we've learned enough individual psych to do some real indoctrinating!
The Sensitive Man | Poul William Anderson
British Dictionary definitions for psych
psyche
/ (saɪk) /
Origin of psych
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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