Kicked
verbStruck something with the foot, or (informally) abandoned a habit.
How to spell kicked
6 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce kicked
What does kicked mean?
- verbStruck something with the foot, or (informally) abandoned a habit.
Kicked in a sentence
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The striker kicked the ball into the top corner.
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She finally kicked her late-night coffee habit.
Where does kicked come from?
Language of origin: Unknown
The base verb 'kick' first appears in late Middle English around the year 1300, and its ultimate origin is genuinely obscure. Early forms such as 'kiken' described striking out with the foot, but no clear parent word survives in Old English, which is unusual for such a basic action. Some scholars have linked it to Old Norse roots tied to bending or doubling the leg, though the evidence is thin and the connection is far from settled. The past-tense form 'kicked' is built in the ordinary regular way, simply by adding the '-ed' ending, which is why it follows the standard pattern rather than an irregular one. The spelling trap is small but real: the 'ck' keeps the hard sound and the '-ed' is pronounced as a plain 't', so writers must remember the silent vowel in the suffix.
How the word is built
- kick (root verb)
- -ed (past tense suffix)
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