Definitions for stock-still

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Spelling: [stok-stil]
IPA: /ˈstɒkˈstɪl/

Stock-Still is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in stock-still (-cikllosstt).

Definitions for stock-still

adjective

  1. completely still; motionless.

Origin of stock-still

First recorded in 1425-75, stock-still is from the late Middle English word stok still. See stock, still1

Examples for stock-still

Shore I'd stood there—stock-still—an' never moved an eye-winker.

I stood for a while stock-still, and then went into the living-room, where Maude was sewing.

I stood, I know not how long, stock-still in the place where I had read that letter.

By and by, they peeped out and saw that King Log was stock-still.

All around me the black fir-points stood upright and stock-still.

And as the witness began to openly weep, his sobs filled the stock-still courtroom.

As soon as he landed, he sat down, stock-still, and checked the instrument case he held in his hands.

The colour fell from their faces, and for a second they stood dumb and stock-still.

The stock-still brick faade of an old church, against which the waves of people lurch and withdraw.

The sergeant slapped his thigh and was turning for congratulations, but suddenly paused, stock-still and staring upward.

Word Value for stock-still
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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