Stakes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STAKES 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
• the money risked on a gamble
• 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 STAKES

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Words that contain STAKES

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How to use STAKES in a sentence

• When a wager is made the stakes are a hundred camels.
• He was a bold political gambler, and played for high stakes.
• With set teeth sat Jack and Billy at their stakes, each steering carefully and well.
• The stakes are larger and the warfare even more bitter.
• But they were playing for higher stakes now! They were playing for the lives and the health of men, and the hearts of the women at home in Britain who were bound up with them.
• How many stakes and wards are there now in the Church 16.
• They played cards for small stakes, drank when they pleased, and, as I have indicated, Nancy smoked.
• Wounds may be present on the body, due to falling on stakes, injuries from passing vessels, etc.
• The Captain called perpetually for more drink, and higher stakes, and lost almost every throw.
• The stakes were in the ground and painted red, the wood was properly fixed.
• Before he had finished, the relentless tide had crept up about the stove, the box where all the cooking utensils had been placed, and the four rubber boots drying on their stakes.
• They were therefore led out and bound to the stakes, and the savages commenced their horrible war-dance round them.
• In the dusk he went out the second time to the fields, tried the stakes, shook his head, and after putting them again in the ground, went home.
• The walls were four feet high, and twenty-two inches thick, strengthened at the angles by stakes driven firmly into the ground.
• The effigies were to be tied to the stakes, and the bones were to be consumed.
• Percival took his sights, fixed his direction and went ahead rapidly, setting his stakes and running his line roughly, Jack coming on later and settling the level.
• He began playing first half-crown stakes, and then higher and higher, till he became very rich, got an appointment in India, and rose to be Governor of Madras.
• We made our wagons as light as possible, taking off all the boards and stakes we could possibly get along without.
• And here, in this clearing, if he wanted further proof of their power, were the three picked skeletons lying stretched out to their stakes.
• Never play for higher stakes than you can afford to lose without regret.
• There were the stakes, and the tin plate, and the bark roof all crushed by the snows of winter.
• They began collecting light brushwood around the upright stakes they drove into the ground.
• The side stakes were driven into the ground at a distance of about 8 feet from the center of the tent.
• The ring bolts were screwed into a pair of stout anchor stakes about two feet from their lower ends.

Similar words containing STAKE without suffix s

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