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steken — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  • jab noun A quick, sharp poke or short straight punch.
  • nettle noun A plant covered in tiny stinging hairs that cause an itchy rash when touched.
  • pry verb To inquire into someone else's private affairs in a nosy or unwelcome way.
  • rankle verb To cause irritation, bitterness or acrimony.
  • shiv noun A makeshift knife, often improvised from an everyday object.
  • stab verb To pierce or wound someone or something with a pointed weapon such as a knife.
  • sting noun A sharp pain, or the puncture and injection of venom by an insect or animal.

Senses

steken is used for these senses in English:

  • bag (transitive) To put into a bag.
  • jab To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
  • nettle (transitive) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
  • nettle (transitive, figurative) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
  • rankle (transitive, or, intransitive) To cause irritation, bitterness or acrimony.
  • shiv (transitive, by extension) To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

bag — full definition

  1. noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  2. verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.

jab — full definition

  1. noun A quick, sharp poke or short straight punch.
  2. noun British informal: an injection, especially a vaccination.
  3. noun A cutting remark aimed at someone.
  4. verb To poke or punch sharply and quickly.
  5. verb To give someone an injection.

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