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STICK BY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be loyal to

Example:

The friends stuck together through the war

Synonyms:

adhere; stand by; stick; stick by

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "stick by" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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