stack
/stæk/ verb C2- To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack. · Please stack those chairs in the corner.
- To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating. · This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
- To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.). · to be stacked against (someone)· The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
- To take all the money another player currently has on the table. · I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
- To operate cumulatively.
- To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
- To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
- To have excessive ink transfer.
He/she/it stacks · Past stacked · Past participle stacked · -ing form stacking
Verb forms
- Base form
- stack
- He/she/it
- stacks
- Past
- stacked
- Past participle
- stacked
- -ing form
- stacking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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When Anne got home that night she stacked all her textbooks away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box.
Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.
The engines were soon upon the spot, but the dry wood burned with great fury, and it was impossible to arrest the conflagration until the stack had been entirely consumed.
The police theory is that a most sensational crime has been committed, that the victim was clubbed to death in his own bedroom, his papers rifled, and his dead body dragged across to the wood-stack, which was then ignited so as to hide all traces of the crime.
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