stuck

See also: Stuck and Stück

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1Edit

VerbEdit

stuck

1. simple past tense and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)

AdjectiveEdit

stuck (comparative more stuck, superlative most stuck)

1. Trapped and unable to move.

   Sue tried to squeeze through the window, but got stuck.

   Can you shift this gate? I think it's stuck.

2. Unable to progress.

   I'm stuck on this question in the test.

3. Stop work (functioning), freeze up, freeze.

   The program always gets stuck when I have more than one window open.

Derived termsEdit

• stuck on

TranslationsEdit

trapped and unable to move

• Catalan: encallat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡住 (zh) (kǎzhù), 卡 (zh) (kǎ)

• Finnish: jumissa (fi)
• French: bloqué (fr), coincé (fr)
• German: eingeklemmt (de), festgeklemmt

• Italian: intrappolato (it), bloccato (it)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: fīxus
• Russian: застря́вший (ru) (zastrjávšij)
• Spanish: atascado (es), atrapado (es), pegado (es)
• Thai: ค้าง (th) (káang), ติด (th) (dtìt), คา (kaa)

unable to progress

• Catalan: encallat
• Finnish: jumissa (fi)
• German: festgefahren (de), festgesetzt (de)
• Italian: ostruito (it), bloccato (it), inceppato (it)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: atascado (es)
• Thai: ค้าง (th) (káang)

Etymology 2Edit

Compare stoccado.

NounEdit

stuck (plural stucks)

1. (obsolete) A thrust.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, IV. vii. 160:

     If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stuck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

AnagramsEdit

• suckt, tucks