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stuaic — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • huff noun A fit of annoyance or offended pride.
  • peak noun The pointed top of a mountain or hill.
  • pinnacle noun The highest point of achievement or success.
  • pique verb To arouse someone's interest or curiosity, especially suddenly.
  • spire noun A tall, tapering structure that rises to a point, especially on top of a church tower.
  • sulk verb To show displeasure by going quiet and withdrawn rather than speaking about it.
  • vertex noun A point where two or more lines, edges or curves meet; a corner of a shape or angle.

Senses

stuaic is used for these senses in English:

  • huff (figurative) A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
  • peak A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
  • pinnacle (geology) A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
  • pinnacle (architectural element) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
  • pique (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
  • spire (architectural element) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. [from 16th c.]
  • sulk A state of sulking.
  • vertex (geometry) An angular point of a polygon, polyhedron or higher order polytope.

huff — full definition

  1. noun A fit of annoyance or offended pride.
  2. verb To breathe out heavily, especially in annoyance or exertion.
  3. verb To react with irritation or wounded pride.
  4. verb (slang) To inhale a substance, especially a solvent, to get high.

peak — full definition

  1. noun The pointed top of a mountain or hill.
  2. noun The highest point or value that something reaches.
  3. adj At the highest or best level; maximum.
  4. verb To reach the highest point or value before declining.

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