stake
verb/steɪk/
/steɪk/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they stake | /steɪk/ /steɪk/ |
| he / she / it stakes | /steɪks/ /steɪks/ |
| past simple staked | /steɪkt/ /steɪkt/ |
| past participle staked | /steɪkt/ /steɪkt/ |
| -ing form staking | /ˈsteɪkɪŋ/ /ˈsteɪkɪŋ/ |
- stake something (on something) to risk money or something important on the result of something synonym bet
- He staked £25 on the favourite (= for example, in horse racing).
- She staked her political career on tax reform, and lost.
- That's him over there—I'd stake my life on it (= I am completely confident).
- stake something (up) to support something with a stake
- to stake newly planted trees
- The young trees should be staked after planting.
Word Originverb sense 1 late Middle English: perhaps a specialized usage of stake ‘post’ from the notion of an object being placed as a wager on a post or stake. verb sense 2 Old English staca, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch staak, also to the verb stick.
Idioms
See stake in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee stake in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishstake (out) a/your claim (to/for/on something)
- to say or show publicly that you think something should be yours
- Adams staked his claim for a place in the Olympic team with his easy win yesterday.
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