| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  s k |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also sick |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: sicced also sicked, sic·cing, sick·ing, sics, sicks
1. To set upon; attack. 2. To urge or incite to hostile action; set: sicced the dogs on the intruders. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Dialectal variant of seek.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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