psych

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Verb (transitive)

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

psych, v.tr. colloq.
1 (usu. foll. by up; often refl.) prepare (oneself or another person) mentally for an ordeal etc.
2 a (usu. foll. by out) analyse (a person's motivation etc.) for one's own advantage (can't psych him out). b subject to psychoanalysis.
3 (often foll. by out) influence a person psychologically, esp. negatively; intimidate, frighten.

Idiom

psych out break down mentally; become confused or deranged.

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THESAURUS

psych

agitate, answer, bottom, bug, clear up, convulse, crack, debug, decipher, decode, discompose, disentangle, distract, disturb, divine, do, dope, dope out, embroil, explain, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, get, get right, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, interpret, make out, open the lock, perturb, plumb, psych out, puzzle out, ravel, ravel out, resolve, riddle, solve, sort out, spook, throw, throw into confusion, trouble, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unsettle, untangle, untwist, unweave, upset, work, work out