stake : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb in question or at issue
  
  • there is more at stake than your modesty
• adverb to be won or lost; at risk
  
  • perhaps a million dollars are at stake

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• in danger; hazarded; pledged. "I see my reputation is at stake." Shak.

Webster 1913

• noun an annual race for three-year-old horses; held on Long Island at Elmont, New York
  

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• noun execution by fire
  burning.
  

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• verb remove oneself from an association with or participation in
  leave; depart.
  
  • She wants to leave
  • The teenager left home
  • She left her position with the Red Cross
  • He left the Senate after two terms
  • after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes

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• noun a kind of bittern
  Botaurus lentiginosus; American bittern.
  

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• noun a horse race in which part of the prize is put up by the owners of the horses in the race
  

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Stake"-driv`er noun

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.

Webster 1913