STUCK


Meaning of STUCK in English

I.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be stuck/caught/held up in traffic

Sorry I’m late – I was stuck in traffic.

get sth caught/stuck etc

She got her foot caught in the wire.

stuck in a rut

I was stuck in a rut and decided to look for a new job.

stuck in...traffic jam

We were stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.

stuck out...tongue

The girl scowled at me, then stuck out her tongue .

stuck together through thick and thin

Then, families stuck together through thick and thin .

stuck...morass

They were stuck in a morass of paperwork.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp

be (stuck) between a rock and a hard place

be stuck in a groove

be stuck with sth/sb

All four of them were stuck with us!

Chutra and I were stuck with each other like binary stars.

He sat thinking how he was stuck with her, how there was no privacy in this house for emergency situations.

I suppose I was stuck with him, like it or not.

If an organism has haemoglobin, it is stuck with it.

If she was stuck with wanting a man whose background and conditioning were alien to her, then that was her problem.

Now they are stuck with those higher prices.

Rosenberg was stuck with 400 shirts that cost $ 4 each.

be stuck/held fast

A character who is held fast can not move or fight, and is treated as prone.

Balor was struggling and writhing, but his limbs were held fast and only his thick, shapeless body could move.

Persephone sprang into her arms and was held fast there.

She tried to pull her hand free, but it was held fast .

She tried to struggle, but she was held fast .

II. adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I can't open the window - it's stuck .

Sorry I'm late. I got stuck in traffic.

The elevator was stuck between two floors.

They tried to drive through the snow, but the car got stuck .

This drawer is stuck .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But here I am stuck now and can't go out in case I bump into her.

Douglas drove very carefully, making sure that Jean didn't get stuck at the traffic lights.

He would instead become stuck making endless comparisons and contrasts, often making no decision at all or a purely random one.

I was getting stuck with all their problems.

Obviously it is worth keeping watch over the pond during these times to ensure that the fish do not become stuck .

She had got stuck getting out of Belfast, and got lost trying to take a short cut round the traffic jam.

While some special interests get fat, the average taxpayer gets stuck cleaning up the manure and feeling pretty frail.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.