- obsoletevicious; corrupt
“Jove Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison In the sick air”
- Held clamped by a vice or something with a similar squeezing action.
“There was a board on a tree, bearing a merchant's name above the legend Jefferson 4 mi, drawing up and then past, yet with no semblance of motion, and he moved his feet slightly and braced his inside ”
“Ewan works a solid half-hour and the viced scroll looks barely scratched.”
“And as the viper tightened its grip to rip past muscle, it twisted its massive jaw back and forth, grinding neck bones while slowly crushing the face and skull, drowning the suppressed screams in bloo”
- Maintaining a vice-like grip.
“After a while Farino fell and Lacy with him; but the viced fingers never relaxed.”
“She nodded every so often, glanced at Henry, tightened her viced hand around Ernest's, and then listened some more.”
“Gray appeared momentarily relieved and relaxed now, his viced hands on the steering wheel loosening a little.”
- form-of, participle, pastsimple past and past participle of vice
Formsmore viced(comparative) · most viced(superlative)