stick – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to stick up for sb
Participle: stuck up for sb
Gerund: sticking up for sb

Cognates

See the 3 cognates of stick

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	stick up for sb
we	Let's stick up for sb
you	stick up for sb

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to tolerate

aby, stomach, tolerate

to have sexual intercourse

bonk, company, dight, ride, roger, shag, copulate, copulate with, tumble

to adhere

adhere

to stop moving

stop

persist

plug, persevere

to hesitate

barcamenarsi, destreggiarsi, essere indeciso, essere titubante, indugiare, nicchiare, peritarsi, prendere tempo, prorogare, temporeggiare, tentennare, tergiversare, esitare, hesitate, titubare, traccheggiare

to engage in sexual intercourse

bang, bauf, beat, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, dance, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frig, fuck, get busy, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, make it, make love, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, play, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, tumble, wango tango

to continue to exist

abide, aby, endure, go on, hold on, last, live, persist, remain, stick it out, stick out

to allow something unpleasant to exist or occur

abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stomach, suffer, swallow, take sitting down, tolerate, thole, undergang, undergo

to become or remain attached

adhere, attach, cleave, cling, conglutinate, stick together, stick with

to stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination

boggle, deliberate, demur, falter, hesitate, hover, mammer, scruple, stand shilly-shally, waver

to pierce something with any long, pointed object

empierce, fix, impale, pierce, prick, puncture, run through, stake, transfix, transpierce

to pierce or wound with a pointed tool or weapon

chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride, jab, job, juke, kebab, knifecrime, pigstick, pink, poach, run through, spear, speet, splash, stab, stob, stog, thrust, yerk

pierce

penetrate, puncture, spear, stab, impale, gore, pin, transfix

adhere

cling, hold, cleave, cohere, abide, persist, remain, stay

Antonyms

in blackjack, be dealt another card

stay, twist

adhere

disunite, loosen, separate, unfasten

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-
3. Proto-Indo-European *stignéh₂-
4. Proto-Germanic *stikkōną
5. Proto-Germanic *stikkô
6. Proto-West Germanic *stikkō
7. Old English sticca
8. Middle English stikke
9. English stick
10. From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô (“stick, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”), Dutch stek (“spot, place, home”), German Low German Stick (“stick”), German Stecken (“stick”), Danish and Norwegian stikke (“stick”), Swedish sticka (“splinter, needle”). Related to stigma. See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Stikke', German, old spelling 'Stecken', Swedish 'sticka'.

Verbs referencing "stick"

Swedish sticka, Greek, Ancient στίζω, Russian стегать.

Sample Sentences