stuck

See also Stück

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈstʌk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• stuck on

Translations

trapped and unable to move

• Chinese: 卡 (kǎ)
• Finnish: jumissa (fi)

• Italian: intrappolato (it), bloccato (it)
• Spanish: atascado (es), atrapado (es), pegado (es)

unable to progress

• Finnish: jumissa (fi)
• Italian: ostruito (it), bloccato (it), inceppato (it)

• Spanish: atascado (es)

Verb

stuck

1. simple past tense and past participle of stick

Etymology 2

Compare stoccado.

Noun

stuck (plural stucks)

1. (obsolete) A thrust.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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