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What is the verb for psychology?

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psych
  1. (transitive, reflexive) To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).
  2. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
  3. (transitive, informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I can psych myself up for a scary movie, but I don't want to psych my mom!”
      “I need to psych myself before the big presentation tomorrow.”
psyche
  1. (transitive) To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind.
  2. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) emotionally using psychology.
  3. (transitive, informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.
psychologize
  1. To interpret or analyze in psychological terms
  2. Examples:
    1. “How do dreams appear to people who, lacking the explanatory and theoretical machinery of modern psychology and neuroscience, cannot psychologize them?”
      “One can only psychologize viciously on the difference in point of view between a full man and an empty one.”
      “I am outwardly calm, and too busy to psychologize much on the great end of this awful eternity.”
psyched
psychologise
  1. Alternative form of psychologize
psychologizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of psychologize
psychologises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of psychologise
psychologised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of psychologise
psychologized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of psychologize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Goldstein's earlier novels psychologized time, foregrounding the present and explaining it by the past.”
psyches
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of psyche
psychs
psychologizing
  1. present participle of psychologize
psychologising
  1. present participle of psychologise
psyching
  1. present participle of psyche
  2. Examples:
    1. “Officers were strutting around before their troops, waving swords and yowling, psyching them up.”
      “Sure, both teams and fans go through the dreary ritual, psyching themselves up into a lather of loathing but to what end?”
      “It was a big disappointment because we'd been psyching ourselves up for it.”
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