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stuck
[stuhk]
stuck
/ ʌ /
verb
the past tense and past participle of stick 2
adjective
informalbaffled or nonplussed
slang(foll by on) keen (on) or infatuated (with)
informal
to perform (a task) with determination
to attack (a person) verbally or physically
Other Word Forms
- self-stuck adjective
Idioms and Phrases
stuck on, infatuated with.
He met her only once and is already stuck on her.
Example Sentences
“That’s a description of the outside world. Then the next line is, ‘I’m just stuck inside the gloom,’ toggling back to the internal emotion.
The Federal Reserve stuck with that strategy on Wednesday, leaving its key interest rate unchanged, even as officials' expectations for the economy worsened.
While schoolchildren, students and workers were sent home for the day, many other people were stuck in lifts or stranded on trains in isolated rural areas.
Angus Edy, 52, who is stuck in Tel Aviv with his 22-year-old son, Samuel, said the situation was "horrendous" and the "lack of care" shown by the UK government towards stranded Brits "shocking".
Since then, a proposed nonprofit, Santa Monica Roots, has gotten “stuck in the machinations of bureaucracy,” she said, with concerns from officials about the ethics of fundraising on city property.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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