PRACTICED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practiced mean? 

• PRACTICED (adjective)
  The adjective PRACTICED has 2 senses:

1. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

2. skillful after much practice

  Familiarity information: PRACTICED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTICED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

Synonyms:

adept; expert; good; practiced; proficient; skilful; skillful

Context example:

the effect was achieved by skillful retouching

Similar:

skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Skillful after much practice

Synonyms:

practiced; practised

Similar:

experienced; experient (having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation)

 Context examples 

Acupuncture has been practiced in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years.

(Acupuncture, NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

In a study, researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)

It is associated with betel quid chewing, a habit practiced in Southeast Asia and India.

(Oral Cavity Submucous Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Secrecy may be advisable; but still I cannot help wondering at its being practiced by him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Sir William Beauchamp went down before the practiced lance of the Captal de Buch.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Medical-surgical nursing is practiced in primary, acute, or long-term nursing care facilities.

(Medical-Surgical Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

The participants practiced grasping and moving a handgrip while receiving varying levels of electrical pulses from the devices.

(Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed people move hands, NIH)

Let it wait and ripen, was her father's advice, and he practiced what he preached, having waited patiently thirty years for fruit of his own to ripen, and being in no haste to gather it even now when it was sweet and mellow.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Away they went fleetly and gracefully, for having practiced at home, they were well matched, and the blithe young couple were a pleasant sight to see, as they twirled merrily round and round, feeling more friendly than ever after their small tiff.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She loved music so dearly, tried so hard to learn, and practiced away so patiently at the jingling old instrument, that it did seem as if someone (not to hint Aunt March) ought to help her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)