EGAVE

psych

About 0.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Clipping of psychiatry. A psychiatric hospital or other treatment facility; also, a psychiatric department or ward in such a facility.
    He had to be involuntarily committed to the psych ward.
  2. noun A psychiatric hospital or other treatment facility; also, a psychiatric department or ward in such a facility.
    He had to be involuntarily committed to the psych ward.
  3. noun Clipping of psychology.
    I took psych in my freshman year at college.
  4. noun Clipping of psychiatrist.
  5. noun Clipping of psychologist; also, a clipping of psychoanalyst.
  6. verb Clipping of psychoanalyse (“to treat (someone) using psychoanalysis”); also, to carry out psychological testing on (someone).
  7. verb Chiefly followed by out: to analyse (something), especially psychologically; also , to work out (something).
  8. verb Often followed by out: to deceive, intimidate, or otherwise manipulate (someone or oneself) emotionally or using psychology. Often followed by up: to put (someone or oneself) into a mental or psychological state where one is ready for some (often challenging) experience; specifically, to make (someone or oneself) enthusiastic or excited about something.
    Hip hop always gets me psyched, so I put it on before a race.

Similar words

psychiatric psychologist therapist psychoanalyst psychiatrist psychiatry psychological psychology mental shrink

Often followed by

ward verbs out et yourself major myself unit

Word family

psyche psyched psyches psyching psychs sike

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