| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A fairly long straight piece of solid material used especially as a support in walking: cane, staff, stave, walking stick. See MACHINE. 2. A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of metal or other solid material: bar, bloom2, rod, shaft, slab. See THING. | | VERB: | 1. To hold fast: adhere, bond, cleave2, cling, cohere. See CONNECT. 2. To become or cause to become stuck or lodged: catch, fix, lodge. See MOVE. 3. Slang. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal : chisel, flimflam, take, trim. Slang : diddle1, do, gyp, sting. See HONEST. 4. Informal. To force (another) to accept a burden: foist, impose, inflict, saddle. See GIVE, OVER, WILLING. 5. Informal. To make incapable of finding something to think, do, or say: confound, nonplus. Informal : flummox, stump, throw. Slang : beat. Idioms: put someone at a loss. See AFFECT, KNOWLEDGE. 6. To cause to penetrate with force: dig, drive, plunge, ram, run, sink, stab, thrust. See PUT IN. 7. To deposit in a specified place: lay1, place, put, set1. See PLACE, RISE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | stick around Informal. To continue to be in a place: abide, bide, linger, remain, stay1, tarry, wait. Idioms: stay put. See CONTINUE. stick out 1. To curve outward past the normal or usual limit: bag, balloon, beetle, belly, bulge, jut, overhang, pouch, project, protrude, protuberate, stand out. See CONVEX. 2. To be obtrusively conspicuous: glare, stand out. Idioms: stare someone in the face, stick out like a sore thumb. See SEE. stick up To take property or possessions from (a person or company, for example) unlawfully and usually forcibly: hold up, rob. Slang : heist, knock off. See CRIMES, GIVE.
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