Staked is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STAKED in dictionary:

VERB:
• STAKE, to fasten with a pointed piece of wood or metal
• support (a plant) with a stake or stakes
• mark an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it
• be assertive in defining and defending a position or policy
• gamble (money or something else of value) on the outcome of a game or race
• give financial or other support to
NOUN:
• a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc.
• a wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive as a punishment
• a long vertical rod used in basket-making.
• a territorial division of the Mormon Church under the jurisdiction of a president.
• a sum of money or something else of value gambled on the outcome of a risky game or venture
• a share or interest in a business, situation, or system
• prize money, especially in horse racing.
• a horse race in which all the owners of the racehorses running contribute to the prize money
• a situation involving competition in a specified area
• a metalworker's small anvil, typically with a projection for fitting into a socket on a bench.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fasten with a stake (a pointed piece of wood or metal)

Words related to STAKED

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How to use STAKED in a sentence

• You staked high for it, and you deserve your fortune.
• The whole combinations of European policy were staked on the question of the French possession of this country.
• But France had staked everything upon the justice of her cause.
• As it started forward he staked everything on one bold move, and won, his reward being a narrow sitting space in the rear of the car, hidden from its occupants by the tonneau.
• The railroad, running west, cut across this bend, and all that country bounded on the north by the railroad and on the south by the river was as wild as the Staked Plains.
• He would have staked his all that the girl had not touched the money.
• Then in desperation he staked his share in the kingdom and that too he lost.
• Some acres of the shallow lagoon would be staked out at low water in the shape of an inverted V, an opening being left for the fish to pass through.
• I staked him to a sleeper ticket, then I moved into his quarters.
• It had been staked, but there was no grass upon it, and the earth was uneven and insecure.
• He staked his last shilling on the chance of thus cutting out an inland north-west passage to the Atlantic.
• I would have staked my life on his integrity, his honesty.
• They passed Beni-Hassan, where a Nile steamer lay staked to the shore, the passengers streaming gaily out and starting off on donkeys for an excursion to the tombs.
• The Colony was planted at this time, on the Manhates where a Fort was staked out by Master Kryn Frederyeke, an engineer.
• He had made the final jump of them all! He was now in some building of that alien race upon whose existence Millaird and Kelgarries had staked the entire project.
• Spain, which staked these plains, will walk across them no more.
• He waited until he had an excellent hand, then staked his money.
• He had staked his professional reputation on this point, and had given assurances that he held other learned opinions to the same purport.
• She had staked a year of her waning youth on winning the big mining man of Kusiak, together with all the money that she had been able to scrape up for a campaign outfit.
• Besides, they have staked their money on the wrong men so often without suspecting it, that when there comes one whom they do suspect it would be madness not to bet against him.
• It was a dark and dangerous game, and he knew that he staked his life on the result.
• Their only bad luck had been to lose a fine black horse, which was staked out, and when a herd of buffaloes came along he broke his rope and followed after them.
• Having adopted this theory at the outset, and staked the whole issue upon it, he felt a natural reluctance to give it up.
• Their horses were staked all around them, and I could not count them either.
• Gray wolves were the worst enemy encountered, running in large bands and finding shelter in the cedar brakes in the canons and foothills which border on the Staked Plain.
• They had us! We had staked the little bit of freedom we had on the chance of getting full freedom.
• Here the German machine-guns had staked out a defensive line, and the German retirement came to a standstill.
• Hearing of a rich discovery of gold in Colorado, he joined a party of miners that were bound there, and, reaching the mining camps, staked out a claim and began work.
• All were more or less oppressed with anxiety, for nearly all of them had staked much upon the coming battle.
• There were also, as I heard, two different masters noted for cruelty on the island, who had staked up two negroes naked, and in two hours the vermin stung them to death.

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