stuck
/stʌk/ adjective B1- Unable to move. · Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.· If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.
- Unable to progress with a task. · I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.
- No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen. · There are several ways to close a stuck program.
From the library
An old man, who was digging busily at one of the beds, stuck his spade in the earth, and approached, cap in hand, striving to conceal a quid of tobacco he had just thrust into his cheek.
On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wore in this country, and the figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the pole stuck up its back.
“No, for this pole is stuck up my back.
“We must certainly get to the Emerald City if we can,” the Scarecrow continued, and he pushed so hard on his long pole that it stuck fast in the mud at the bottom of the river.
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