steken — meaning in English

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 keep causing annoyance or resentment over time.
• 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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