Entry Word: stick

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion <those magnets are strong enough to stick well to the refrigerator>

Synonyms adhere, cleave, cling, hew

Related Words bind, cohere, fasten, fuse, glue, unite

Near Antonyms loosen; drop, fall

2 to arrange something in a certain spot or position <you can stick that box in the corner until I figure out where to put everything> — see place 1
3 to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object <could hardly feel the needle when the nurse stuck me with it> — see impale
4 to rob by the use of trickery or threats <keeps getting stuck by guys who promise to pay him for the yard work and never do> — see fleece