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Another word for tick

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Noun

  1. A very brief time

    See also:

    time

    big

Idioms:

    tick off

  1. To name or specify one by one

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Another word for tick

Noun

  1. A light beat

  2. An insect

    See also:

    pest

    insect

  3. A mattress

    See also:

    mattress

    bed

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Sentence Examples

  • The tick in his jaw belied how tightly his teeth were clamped.

  • He had a personality that would tick off Mother Theresa.

  • Who knew what would tick him off?

  • In the United States alone the annual pecuniary loss in cattle stock occasioned by the ravages of this tick disease was computed in 1907 at one hundred million dollars.

  • Amblyomma hebraeum, the bont or variegated tick of the Cape Colonists, infects sheep with the 9porozoon causing "heart-water" sickness, and in Europe sheep are inoculated with the same disease by another tick, Rhipicephalus bursa.

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