Meaning & use

Sicced

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Urged or set an animal, especially a dog, to attack.

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The farmer sicced his dog on the trespassers.

She threatened to sic her lawyers on anyone who broke the contract.

A note on using this word

Past tense of 'sic,' itself a dialectal variant of 'seek,' used as a command to a dog.

Words with a similar meaning

incitedunleashed

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Words with an opposite meaning

called off

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