stick
/stɪk/ verb C2- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick. · to stick type
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To hit with a stick.
He/she/it sticks · Past sticked · Past participle sticked · -ing form sticking
Verb forms
- Base form
- stick
- He/she/it
- sticks
- Past
- sticked
- Past participle
- sticked
- -ing form
- sticking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The farmer carried me under his arm to the cornfield, and set me up on a tall stick, where you found me.
“To wash my face clean after the dust of the road, and to drink, so the dry bread will not stick in my throat.”
through a lying dream of my father’s, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a girl: what shall I now do to you?” With these words he stretched out his hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the lion.
His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard!
Other matches
- stick To become or remain attached B1
- stick A small, thin branch from a tree or bush B2
- stick A thrust with a pointed instrument C2
- stick Likely to stick C2
- stick around To stay
- stick by to follow or adhere to somebody or something, t...
- stick down To cause to stick to a surface.
- stick out To protrude.
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