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Associations of "Stick to" (30 Words)
adhere | Stick fast to (a surface or substance. Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall. |
branch | Of a tree or plant bear or send out branches. This rose has a tendency to branch and spread at the top. |
drill | Similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored. BP has been licensed to drill for oil in the area. |
impale | Display (a coat of arms) side by side with another on the same shield, separated by a vertical line. His head was impaled on a pike and exhibited for all to see. |
knife | Use a knife on. A shard of steel knifed through the mainsail. |
nudge | Push into action by pestering or annoying gently. She appreciated the nudge to her memory. |
pang | A sudden sharp pain or painful emotion. A pang of conscience. |
perforate | Perforated. The walls will be perforated with thousands of circular openings. |
pierce | Force a way through; penetrate. The needle pierced her flesh. |
pin | Attach or fasten with pins or as if with pins. She was standing pinned against the door. |
poke | Poke or thrust abruptly. He poked Benny in the ribs and pointed. |
prickle | A small spine or pointed outgrowth on the skin of certain animals. Kathleen felt a prickle of excitement. |
prickly | (of a person) ready to take offence. This is a prickly subject. |
pushing | The act of applying force in order to move something away. The pushing is good exercise. |
shove | The act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something. I should have told the boss to shove it. |
spike | Bring forth a spike or spikes. The second baseman sharpened his spikes before every game. |
spiny | Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. A spiny cactus. |
stab | Stab or pierce. A stitch stabbed at her side. |
stake | A pole or stake set up to mark something as the start or end of a race track. Bishop Ridley was burned at the stake. |
sticker | A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf. A disabled sticker for our car. |
sting | A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect s stinger into skin. She smiled to take the sting out of her words. |
thatch | Hair resembling thatched roofing material. The rain drummed noisily on the thatch above her head. |
thorn | A thorny bush shrub or tree especially a hawthorn. The issue has become a thorn in renewing the peace talks. |
twig | Branch out in a twiglike manner. Cutaneous nerve twigs. |
twinge | A brief experience of an emotion, typically an unpleasant one. Stop the exercises if the tummy twinges. |
wattle | Any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle. |
wedge | Fix in position using a wedge. Davies hit a wedge to within a yard of the hole. |