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Stakes

noun

1.

The money risked on a gamble. Synonyms: bet, stake, wager.

Stake

noun

1.

(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something. Synonym: interest. "A stake in the company's future"

2.

A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track). Synonym: post. "The corner of the lot was indicated by a stake"

3.

Instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning.

4.

The money risked on a gamble. Synonyms: bet, stakes, wager.

5.

A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground.

verb

(past & past part. staked; pres. part. staking)

1.

Put at risk. Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, venture.

2.

Place a bet on. Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, punt. "I'm betting on the new horse"

3.

Mark with a stake. Synonym: post.

4.

Tie or fasten to a stake.

5.

Kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole. Synonym: impale.

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"Stakes" Quotes from Famous Books

... semicircle, regularly enough, just opposite to it. The brook runs between. It is liable to floods; and do observe the way the people set about protecting themselves from them; one with stones, another with stakes; the next puts up a boarding, and a fourth tries beams and planks; no one, of course, doing any good to another with his arrangement, but only hurting himself and the rest too. And then there is the road going ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... The Inquisition sat shrouded and enthroned in supernatural obscurity of cunning and awfulness of power, and thrust its invisible daggers everywhere. The facts men knew here around them gave credibility to the imagery in which the hereafter was depicted. The flaming stakes of an Auto da Fe around which the victims of ecclesiastical hatred writhed were but faint emblems of what awaited their souls in the realm of demons whereto the tender mercies of the Church consigned them. Indeed, ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... the man clambered upon it, threw a couple of half-hitches in the painter round one of the stakes, shouldered the oars and began to shamble toward the hotel: a tall, ungainly figure blackly silhouetted against the steel-blue ...

— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance

... than on ordinary occasions. After eating our supper, we left the hut together, and walked for a few minutes on the banks of the sea. It was high water, and the ebb had not yet commenced. The moon shone broad and bright upon the placid face of the Solway Firth, and showed a slight ripple upon the stakes, the tops of which were just visible above the waves, and on the dark-coloured buoys which marked the upper edge of the enclosure of nets. At a much greater distance—for the estuary is here very wide—the line of the English coast was seen on the verge of the water, resembling ...

— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... fascinating business, isn't it? It's a business in which the unexpected is forever happening. But the stakes are high and—I know you ...

— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach

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