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STICK OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Example:
She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
Synonyms:
abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "stick out" is one way to...):
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
Verb group:
suffer (experience (emotional) pain)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stick out"):
accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)
hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)
bear up (endure cheerfully)
take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)
take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)
sit out (endure to the end)
pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be highly noticeable
Synonyms:
jump; jump out; leap out; stand out; stick out
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "stick out" is one way to...):
appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 3
Meaning:
Extend out or project in space
Example:
A single rock sticks out from the cliff
Synonyms:
jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stick out"):
overhang (project over)
spear; spear up (thrust up like a spear)
bag; bulge (bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge)
cantilever (project as a cantilever)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
