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.
“Stuck-up old statuette of nothing doing!” commented the ex-Soap King.
“I’m very sorry,” said Richard, as he resumed his seat, “but it looks as if we are stuck.
“It--it is the Bandar-log that we follow now,” said Baloo, but the words stuck in his throat, for that was the first time in his memory that one of the Jungle-People had owned to being interested in the doings of the monkeys.
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