How do you pronounce pricked?

The recorded pronunciation is /pɹɪkt/.

pricked

/pɹɪkt/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

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adj

verb

"The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars."
"Make sure to keep your ears pricked and your eyes peeled."

unpricked uppricked

pin-pricked prick up one's ears

prick up one's ears

picked kicked strict predict restrict addict clicked tricked depict contradict inflict licked

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