Word Finder - staked

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To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.

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to stake vines or plants

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To pierce or wound with a stake.

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To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.

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To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.

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His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.

It looks like the bear staked this out as his kill, so...

Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again lost.

It remained the fact that Mr Chamberlain staked an already established position on his refusal to compromise with his convictions on a question which appeared to him of vital and immediate importance.

They also counted nuts that fell into fixed quadrats staked into the ground.

The ash surface was staked off into square metres, and the substance carefully removed in order.

After a quick twirl of the weapon to show off, she punched with her left and staked with her right.

Like all games in which the element of chance found a place, it was regarded as more or less ominous of the future success of the players, especially in matters of love; and the excitement was sometimes further augmented by some object of value being staked on the event.

The character of the voters is not staked.

Sometimes he staked a large sum, but Dolokhov refused to accept it and fixed the stake himself.

We just moved, and BeBe, my four-year-old cat, staked out the living room.

This perfume has staked many claims against typical over the counter alcohol-based scents.

Usually, the tent canopy is pulled very tightly across the poles which are staked into the ground.

Smaller trees may need to be staked and protected.

Amish Paste - This variety of plum tomatoes must be staked.

The first season has some really great episodes, such as the night the owners of Trademark Properties staked out one of their houses under reconstruction in order to catch people stealing building materials.

Have you ever staked your umbrella into the sand and gone swimming, only to return and find it has blown away clear to the other end of the beach?

It can be staked down with pegs, which are included.

Even so, the sheet can be staked into the sand via grommets in each corner so it will not blow away.

It is also wind-resistant and features grommets that will let it be staked, or you can use the convenient pockets ready to be filled with sand to weigh it down.

In the movie, Pandora is a newly discovered planet, in which humans have staked a claim.

During one of his first episodes, Saltzman staked Logan Fell, the reporter turned vampire.

Mature plants may need to be staked because the large blooms tend to droop from their own weight.

The worst of it is, now he thinks he has some kind of claim staked on me.

These are prepared by cutting down and burning the jungle, which is afterwards hoed, lined and staked in parallel rows running both ways.

The corpse of the vampire, which may often be recognized by its unnaturally ruddy and fresh appearance, should be staked down in the grave or its head should be cut off; it is interesting to note that the cutting off of heads of the dead was a neolithic burial rite.

What happened after that bitch staked me?