Antonyms for tick
tɪktick

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1. tick, tickingnoun

   a metallic tapping sound

   "he counted the ticks of the clock"

   Synonyms:
   ticking, check mark, check

2. ticknoun

   any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

   Synonyms:
   ticking, check mark, check

3. check mark, check, ticknoun

   a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.

   "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"

   Synonyms:
   impediment, baulk, cheque, stay, confirmation, bridle, ticking, hitch, chip, handicap, assay, stoppage, balk, check, check-out procedure, bank check, tab, chit, curb, halt, deterrent, check mark, hinderance, hindrance, substantiation, stop, arrest, verification, checkout

4. tickverb

   a light mattress

   Synonyms:
   ticking, check mark, check

5. click, tickverb

   make a clicking or ticking sound

   "The clock ticked away"

   Synonyms:
   click, penetrate, dawn, beat, flick, get through, sink in, mark, come home, check, chatter, check off, ticktack, retick, snap, tick off, clack, cluck, get across, fall into place, mark off, ticktock

6. tick, ticktock, ticktack, beatverb

   make a sound like a clock or a timer

   "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

   Synonyms:
   baffle, exhaust, get, circumvent, stick, crush, vanquish, mark, mystify, flummox, retick, outwit, nonplus, trounce, drum, beat up, bunk, dumbfound, tucker out, flap, perplex, beat out, gravel, thump, check off, ticktack, outsmart, amaze, beat, thrum, ticktock, puzzle, quiver, check, click, pound, mark off, work over, pulsate, overreach, bewilder, tucker, vex, stupefy, wash up, outfox, tick off, pose, scramble, shell

7. tick, retickverb

   sew

   "tick a mattress"

   Synonyms:
   beat, mark, ticktock, retick, tick off, mark off, check off, ticktack, check, click

8. check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off, tickverb

   put a check mark on or near or next to

   "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units"

   Synonyms:
   ensure, hold in, jibe, tick off, label, fit, gibe, chequer, hold, moderate, distinguish, learn, checker, mark off, ticktack, stop, pock, condition, assure, nock, tally, beat, scar, suss out, check off, check over, match, check up on, control, look into, ascertain, mark, insure, retick, tag, check, train, arrest, hold back, click, set, stigmatize, find out, see, discipline, stigmatise, grade, pit, cross out, denounce, mark out, correspond, score, curb, punctuate, notice, check into, contain, strike off, strike out, determine, see to it, retard, crack, turn back, watch, brand, differentiate, break, cross off, agree, ticktock, check out, go over, note, commemorate, delay

How to use tick in a sentence?

1. Ilia Rochlin:

   This tick can bite humans, pets, farm animals and wildlife.

2. Daniel Cameron:

   We understand that we’re trying to cut back on antibiotic use, but if you have a child that’s sick, and with so many complexities of infection in a tick and plenty of published literature that supports how complicated this disease is, you’d like to have the freedom as a doctor to treat your patients and not be limited, if doctors who treat Lyme had more freedom, we wouldn’t have so much frustration in the medical community.

3. Richard Shelby:

   He might be amenable to doing nothing. Let it tick away, i don't know.

4. David Mawson:

   We voted to either stay in the European Union or leave the European Union. There wasn't a box to tick for a deal. I voted to leave.

5. Jeff Melvoin:

   You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

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