verb · intransitive · common

stark

stark · starks · starked · starking

To stiffenTo stiffen.

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UK/stɑːk/US/stɑɹk/

» Have you gone stark raving mad?

Meaning

1 senses

(dialectal, obsolete)To stiffen.

Examples

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Have you gone stark raving mad?
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Has everyone gone stark-raving mad?
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Tom was standing there stark naked.
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Tom has gone stark raving mad.
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Tom was stark naked.
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Origin

From Middle English starken, from Old English stearcian (“to stiffen, become hard, grow st

From Middle English starken, from Old English stearcian (“to stiffen, become hard, grow stiff or hard”), from Proto-Germanic *starkōną, *starkēną (“to stiffen, become hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with German erstarken (“to strengthen”).

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