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psyched out
verb
Past of psych out
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It isn't the opponent who psyches you out - it's you, yourself who gets psyched out by your opponent's looks or the things they do before or during the competition.
Psyched out by Fury?
My theory: Van Persie is psyched out by presence of his enemy Sneijder.
It is not that he felt psyched out by the part, he said.
"If I had the whole day to think about it," he said, "I could have been psyched out".
Trump "was a master of branding and psyched out his opponents by defining them with nicknames that stuck," Spicer writes.
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In bodybuilding, I was known for "psyching" out my opponents with mind tricks.
Mr. Bush tries so hard to psych out Saddam Hussein that he bewilders his own countrymen.
But when he psychs out possible conquests, his telepathic insights drip with hostility.
Ferguson has this reputation for playing mind games, for psyching out opponents.
In his 1971 autobiography, "Deep Water," Schollander wrote: "Psyching out is part of the game.
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