viced

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11
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13
Letters
5

Definition of viced

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)vicious; corrupt
    “Jove Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison In the sick air”
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adj

  1. (obsolete)vicious; corrupt
    “Jove Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison In the sick air”
  2. Held clamped by a vice or something with a similar squeezing action.
    “Ewan works a solid half-hour and the viced scroll looks barely scratched.”
    “And as the viper tightened its grip to rip past muscle, it twisted its massive jaw back and forth, grinding neck bones while slowly crushing the face and skull, drowning the suppressed screams in blood and bone that poured from his his viced neck, before lifting Peto'stiff body into the air where it quickly coiled its muscular scales and corkscrewed to mince what remained, finally releasing the twisted and bloodied tattoed skin of its dead victim to fall as a sack of oozing meat...with feet.”
  3. Maintaining a vice-like grip.
    “After a while Farino fell and Lacy with him; but the viced fingers never relaxed.”
    “She nodded every so often, glanced at Henry, tightened her viced hand around Ernest's, and then listened some more.”
    “Gray appeared momentarily relieved and relaxed now, his viced hands on the steering wheel loosening a little.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of vice

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Etymology

From vice + -ed?

Anagrams of viced

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