Definitions for practiced

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practiced prac·ticed

Spelling: [prak-tist]

IPA: /ˈpræk tɪst/

Practiced is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 496 anagrams from letters in practiced (accdeiprt).

Definitions for practiced

noun

1. habitual or customary performance; operation:
2. habit; custom:
3. repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency:
4. condition arrived at by experience or exercise:
5. the action or process of performing or doing something:
6. the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine:
7. the business of a professional person:
8. Law. the established method of conducting legal proceedings.
9. Archaic. plotting; intrigue; trickery.
10. Usually, practices. Archaic. intrigues; plots.

adjective

1. skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience:
2. acquired or perfected through practice:

verb (used with object)

1. to perform or do habitually or usually:
2. to follow or observe habitually or customarily:
3. to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation:
4. to perform or do repeatedly in order to acquire skill or proficiency:
5. to train or drill (a person, animal, etc.) in something in order to give proficiency.

verb (used without object)

1. to do something habitually or as a practice.
2. to pursue a profession, especially law or medicine.
3. to exercise oneself by repeated performance in order to acquire skill:
4. Archaic. to plot or conspire.

Origin of practiced

First recorded in 1560-70; practice + -ed²

Examples for practiced

Comedy at its best, as George Carlin practiced it, holds a mirror up to society in a harsh light.

The dire fatalism that dominated the discourse then is gone, replaced largely with a practiced apathy.

Both methods are practiced, but the former is believed to be preferable.

Flirtation may be practiced in a more or less unconscious manner.

Very often Rob had practiced his French so as to get this explanation correct.

They practiced ceremonial cannibalism, believing the hearts of their victims would imbue them with power.

The touch was not his—neither so practiced, so brilliant, nor so sure.

Since the 10th century, Bulgaria has practiced varying forms of prevention to keep vampires from coming back to life.

And when safe sex is practiced, he feels there is little to fear.

Historians are endeavoring to ascertain whether he practiced what he preached.