tick off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ticks off
form: ticking off
form: ticked off
form: ticked off
Senses: examples: text: I ticked off Harry today because he announced he was present.
text: I ticked three things off the list in my head, and had only four chores left to do.
text: A decade ago, I was a backpacker entirely reliant on the railways as a means to see Britain, and with castles as my destination. Via trains alone, I was able to tick off nearly all of the castles that my English Heritage annual pass afforded me.
ref: 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 53:
synonyms: check off
glosses: To sign an item on a list with a tick mark, especially as a signal that the item has veen verified or completed.
examples: text: In a lengthy missive dispatched the next afternoon, Wheeler ticked off a laundry list of reasons why he could not obey Bragg's order.
ref: 2010, David A. Powell, Failure in the Saddle, Savas Beatie, →ISBN, page 68:
text: “So many wars here,” says Luo Xin, my walking partner and a brilliant writer and professor of history from Peking University.
I ask Luo to name them.
Not breaking stride, he ticks off the wars between the Three Kingdoms more than 2,200 years ago. And then the Han-Xiongnu war of the second century B.C. And Liu Bobo’s later campaigns against the Qin empire. And the Tang versus Northern Song dynasty. And the Ming frontier wars. More recently, there was the Chinese civil war and the war against Japanese aggression. The Yellow River’s silted waters sucked away casualties from them all.
ref: 2023 November 8, Paul Salopek, “River Blues”, in National Geographic:
synonyms: enumerate
recite
glosses: To list (create or recite a list).
examples: text: It really ticks me off when people don't use proper punctuation.
synonyms: word: bug
word: irk
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To annoy, aggravate.
examples: text: Fred was ticked off by the teacher for playing around in class.
text: Having ticked us off in this way, the rascal had an elaborate description of rails at the pit mouth, and of a zigzag excavation by which funicular trains were to burrow into the earth.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
synonyms: word: admonish
word: tell off
word: animadvert
word: admonish
word: bash
word: bawl out
word: blast
word: derogate
word: berate
word: berisp
word: castigate
word: censure
word: chastise
word: chew out
word: chide
word: condemn
word: criticize
word: denounce
word: denunciate
word: drag
word: dress down
word: eat someone alive
word: excoriate
word: find fault
word: fulminate
word: get down
word: get up
word: give somebody a piece of one's mind
word: give somebody what-for
word: inveigh
word: lace into
word: lambaste
word: lay into
word: lecture
word: light into
word: objurgate
word: pooh-pooh
word: put someone on blast
word: rate
word: read somebody the riot act
word: rebuke
word: reprehend
word: reprimand
word: reproach
word: reprove
word: rip into
word: rubbish
word: savage
word: scold
word: slam
word: tear into
word: tell off
word: threap
word: tick off
word: tosh
word: keelhaul
word: upbraid
word: vilify
word: vituperate
qualifier: historically US
glosses: To reprimand.
Synonyms: word: catalogue
word: enumerate
word: list
word: recite
word: tabulate
word: tick off
Hypernyms: word: collate
word: compile
Hyponyms: word: enlist
word: factorize
word: inventory
word: itemize
word: read off
word: rattle off
word: reel off
word: rhyme off
word: run down
Related terms: word: classify
word: order
word: rank
word: sort