wick
verb/wɪk/
/wɪk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they wick | /wɪk/ /wɪk/ |
| he / she / it wicks | /wɪks/ /wɪks/ |
| past simple wicked | /wɪkt/ /wɪkt/ |
| past participle wicked | /wɪkt/ /wɪkt/ |
| -ing form wicking | /ˈwɪkɪŋ/ /ˈwɪkɪŋ/ |
- wick something (away) (of a material) to take small drops of liquid from an area and move them away
- Wool socks wick away sweat.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryWick is used with these nouns as the object:- moisture
Word OriginOld English wēoce, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wiek and German Wieche ‘wick yarn’.
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