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STICK BY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stick by mean?
• STICK BY (verb)
The verb STICK BY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: STICK BY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be loyal to
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
adhere; stand by; stick; stick by
Context example:
The friends stuck together through the war
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
Context examples
"You'd better stick by the sled," his partner protested.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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