Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to stake
Participle: staked
Gerund: staking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | stake |
| you | stake |
| he;she;it | stakes |
| we | stake |
| you | stake |
| they | stake |
Perfect
| I | have staked |
| you | have staked |
| he;she;it | has staked |
| we | have staked |
| you | have staked |
| they | have staked |
Past
| I | staked |
| you | staked |
| he;she;it | staked |
| we | staked |
| you | staked |
| they | staked |
Pluperfect
| I | had staked |
| you | had staked |
| he;she;it | had staked |
| we | had staked |
| you | had staked |
| they | had staked |
Future
| I | will stake |
| you | will stake |
| he;she;it | will stake |
| we | will stake |
| you | will stake |
| they | will stake |
Future Perfect
| I | will have staked |
| you | will have staked |
| he;she;it | will have staked |
| we | will have staked |
| you | will have staked |
| they | will have staked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | stake |
| you | stake |
| he;she;it | stake |
| we | stake |
| you | stake |
| they | stake |
Perfect
| I | have staked |
| you | have staked |
| he;she;it | have staked |
| we | have staked |
| you | have staked |
| they | have staked |
Imperfect
| I | staked |
| you | staked |
| he;she;it | staked |
| we | staked |
| you | staked |
| they | staked |
Pluperfect
| I | had staked |
| you | had staked |
| he;she;it | had staked |
| we | had staked |
| you | had staked |
| they | had staked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would stake |
| you | would stake |
| he;she;it | would stake |
| we | would stake |
| you | would stake |
| they | would stake |
Perfect
| I | would have staked |
| you | would have staked |
| he;she;it | would have staked |
| we | would have staked |
| you | would have staked |
| they | would have staked |
Imperative
| you | stake |
| we | Let's stake |
| you | stake |
Verbs conjugated like 'stake'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'stake'
atake,
shake,
slake,
smake,
snake,
stage,
stale,
stare,
state,
stave,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to pierce something with any long, pointed object
- empierce, fix, impale, pierce, prick, puncture, run through, stick, transfix, transpierce
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”).
2. Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca.
Verbs referencing "stake"
Italian
staccare.
Sample Sentences
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to stake vines or plants
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You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it. [1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:]
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“You ladies happen to notice what happened to this vampire? This just happened. Did you see who staked him?” [2014, A. J. Gallant, Dracula: Hearts of Stone:]
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I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys. [1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 725:]
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John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
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His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
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Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner. [2019, Elad Elrom, “Blockchain Basics”, in The Blockchain Developer […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 23:]