stakes
/steɪks/ sustantivo C1En español: apuesta, riesgo
- The money wagered in gambling
- Risks
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What have we to do with walking corpses who can only be held in their grave by stakes driven through their hearts?
Ronald Adair was fond of cards—playing continually, but never for such stakes as would hurt him.
“Well, then,” pursued Madame G—— with considerable animation, “you can probably tell me who won the Jockey Club stakes?”
Noirtier raised his eyes to heaven, as a gambler does who stakes his all on one stroke.
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