Definitions for stake

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stake stake

Spelling: [steyk]

IPA: /steɪk/

Stake is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in stake (aekst).

Definitions for stake

noun

1. a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
2. a post to which a person is bound for execution, usually by burning.
3. the stake, the punishment of death by burning:
4. one of a number of vertical posts fitting into sockets or staples on the edge of the platform of a truck or other vehicle, as to retain the load.
5. Mormon Church. a division of ecclesiastical territory, consisting of a number of wards presided over by a president and two counselors.
6. sett (def 2).
7. something that is wagered in a game, race, or contest.
8. a monetary or commercial interest, investment, share, or involvement in something, as in hope of gain:
9. a personal or emotional concern, interest, involvement, or share:
10. the funds with which a gambler operates.
11. Often, stakes. a prize, reward, increase in status, etc., in or as if in a contest.
12. stakes, Poker. the cash values assigned to the various colored chips, various bets, and raises:
13. a grubstake.

Idioms

1. pull up stakes, Informal. to leave one's job, place of residence, etc.; move:
2. at stake, in danger of being lost, as something that has been wagered; critically involved.

Verb phrases

1. stake out, to keep (a suspect) under police surveillance. to appoint (a police officer) to maintain constant watch over a suspect or place.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with or as if with stakes (often followed by off or out):
2. to possess, claim, or reserve a share of (land, profit, glory, etc.) as if by marking or bounding with stakes (usually followed by out or off):
3. to separate or close off by a barrier of stakes.
4. to support with a stake or stakes, as a plant:
5. to tether or secure to a stake, as an animal:
6. to fasten with a stake or stakes.
7. to risk (something), as upon the result of a game or the occurrence or outcome of any uncertain event, venture, etc.:
8. to furnish (someone) with necessaries or resources, especially money:

Origin of stake

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English staca pin; cognate with Dutch staak, German Stake, Old Norse -staki (in lȳsistaki candlestick); akin to stick¹

Examples for stake

Eulalia, when at the stake, breathes the flame that she may die the more quickly.

We can, due to the critical issues at stake, also go one more step and impose an embargo.

Of course you'll do it, and you could do it better if you had three or four times the stake you got.

Why, that must mean the stake yonder; that must be the mark.

At stake is not just the 21 photos that were originally ordered to be released.

Think about it: Dodd-Frank was explicitly passed to drive a stake through the heart of the implicit concept of “too big to fail.”

Paul has consistently used Benghazi as a device to stake out high ground on foreign policy.

By golly, we'll stake her to a hay knife and tell her to go after him!

We'll land that stake; an' p'raps the sharp division'll take a tumble.

Then as now, we all are at stake, and sooner or later, we all must make a stand.