stick

/stɪk/ v [always + adv/prep] (past tense and past participle stuck /stʌk/) (PUSH INTO)

Definition

› to push something pointed into or through something, or to be pushed into or through something: [T] I simply cannot watch when someone sticks a needle in my arm. [I] He throws the knife, and the blade sticks in the wall.

(Definition of stick v (PUSH INTO) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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stick together phrasal verb
stick up for something/someone phrasal verb
stick up phrasal verb
stick v ATTACH
stick v BE UNABLE TO MOVE
stick v PUSH INTO
stick v PUT
stick with someone/something phrasal verb
stick your neck out idiom
stick your nose into something idiom
sticker n

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something sticks in your mind idiom
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