Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.

    to stake vines or plants

    anpflocken, anbinden, hochbinden

    укрепля́тьukrepljátʹ, укрепи́тьukrepítʹ, подпира́тьpodpirátʹ

  2. (transitive)To pierce or wound with a stake.

    pfählen

    mark with a stake

  3. (transitive)To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.

    ста́вить на картуstávitʹ na kartu, ста́вить на конstávitʹ na kon

    put at risk

  4. (transitive)To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.

    John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.

    His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.

  5. To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.

  6. (obsolete)To stretch leather skin over a piece of iron held knee-height, in preparation to use the skin in the creation of gloves.

Examples

158 sentences
  1. I know the stakes.

    Я знаю, які ставки. — deniko

    deIch weiß, was auf dem Spiel steht. — raggione

  2. A great deal is at stake.

  3. Don't you understand what's at stake here?

  4. I have to know what's at stake.

    ruЯ должен знать, что стоит на кону. — mrtaistoi

  5. I'm aware of what is at stake.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to fasten, support, or defend with stakes:
to put at hazard upon the issue of competition:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to fasten, support, or defend with stakes:
to pierce or wound with a stake:

Origin

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Ge

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”).

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Forms

stakes, staking, staked, staked
Base formstake · to stake
3rd person singularstakes
Present participlestaking
Past simplestaked
Past participlestaked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystake
he, she, itstakes

Past simpleLesson

all personsstaked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave staked
he, she, ithas staked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stake

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

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