stick out

stick out
verb
1. extend out or project in space (Freq. 1)
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His sharp nose jutted out

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A single rock sticks out from the cliff

Syn: ↑protrude, ↑jut out, ↑jut, ↑project
Derivationally related forms: ↑projection (for: ↑project), ↑jutting (for: ↑jut), ↑protrusible (for: ↑protrude), ↑protrusive (for: ↑protrude), ↑protrusion (for: ↑protrude)
Hyponyms:
overhang, ↑thrust, ↑push up, ↑spear, ↑spear up, ↑bulge, ↑bag, ↑cantilever
Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Something is ——ing PP

2. be highly noticeable
Syn: ↑leap out, ↑jump out, ↑jump, ↑stand out
Hypernyms: ↑look, ↑appear, ↑seem
Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Something is ——ing PP

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It ——s that CLAUSE

3. put up with something or somebody unpleasant
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I cannot bear his constant criticism

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The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks

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he learned to tolerate the heat

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She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

Syn:
digest, ↑endure, ↑stomach, ↑bear, ↑stand, ↑tolerate, ↑support, ↑brook, ↑abide, ↑suffer, ↑put up
Derivationally related forms:
sufferance (for: ↑suffer), ↑abidance (for: ↑abide), ↑tolerant (for: ↑tolerate), ↑toleration (for: ↑tolerate), ↑tolerance (for: ↑tolerate), ↑bearable (for: ↑bear), ↑endurance (for: ↑endure)
Hypernyms: ↑permit, ↑allow, ↑let, ↑countenance
Hyponyms:
Verb Group: ↑suffer
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s PP

(for: ↑put up)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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