Meanings of stick in английском

He choked; the blood beat in his head; he was at bursting-point.

Twice the English beat the enemy in the triangle between the rivers.

Mr Trump beat Ms Clinton by 5 per cent four years ago.

The rain beat upon them and the wind soughed in the trees.

We could hear the immense heart-beat of the world in the stillness.

Vector-borne diseases, including arboviruses, pose a serious threat to public health worldwide.

Yet such detentions pose a public image problem for the security forces.

I pose this simple question: is our destiny with Europe or not?

However, overtreatment should be avoided and life-threatening infections pose a particular problem.

Immigrants do pose a severe burden on particular communities at particular times.

The voids in the sand grit and gravel were 27 per cent.

I followed a gravel driveway along the left side of the building.

There; you can hear the wheels of his gig on the gravel.

Oh, and the gravel strip under the windows is a good idea.

I can feel it, Alick had said, his voice gravel-donot appear.

Years later it is not possible to assemble the accountability puzzle fully.

Every book becomes a new kind of puzzle the second time around.

OmniMotion Technology this week released Sumo, a physics-based combat and puzzle game.

Instinctively, Faith knew she was missing a great deal of the puzzle.

The puzzle apparently no longer needed any human agency in its solving.

Just to vex him, I had made a list of essential characteristics.

I have no doubt he is deliberately setting out to vex us.

They vex the ear a little, but they never reach the mind.

It seemed this body was determined to vex ID at every turn.

And now let us not vex ourselves any further with these conundrums.

The stranger stood in amaze and gazed on the scene before him.

The face she saw in the mirror excited her amaze and pity.

The English in their towers gazed in amaze, but fired no shot.

They turned in sudden amaze to the spot whence the sounds issued.

The sight of the paper which it contained seemed to amaze him.

Barbara did not sulk; when one tried to baffle her she fought.

The appearance of Marouane Fellaini in a United shirt continues to baffle.

And so two people will maneuver and wander and baffle each other.

It was dug out merely to baffle robbers, and it concealed nothing.

The motivations and instincts of our continental partners sometimes baffle us Brits.

Asking him to consider the consequences beyond that appeared to perplex him.

These issues perplex so many families, and the Andrews were no different.

How Junkie got to the Baviaans River may perhaps perplex the reader.

It was a perfectly commonplace remark-andyet, it seemed to perplex him.

He will puzzle us and perplex us as well as exasperate us.

I believe this report will weary and bewilder people more than others.

Later, the lights in the busy streets will bewilder and entice him.

Thus did Hepzibah bewilder herself with these fantasies of the old time.

Reine went in and out of the room in a bewildered fashion.

Darrell did not reply at once; he felt in some way bewildered.

The Emperor's invariable method in dealing with men was to mystify them.

I always was under the impression that no illusion could mystify me.

Her very confession, so simply spoken, tended to confuse, to mystify him.

That was better than frankincense and myrrh, to mystify a genuine commissioner!

Mr Kent gashes body, to mystify discoverers, and disposes of same.'

You stupefy and bewilder her with your eternal tattling and roundabout harangues.

Religion seems to have no other object, than to stupefy the mind.

Somebody might have thought to stupefy Mr. Langmore and then rob him.

All these things seemed to dull and stupefy me rather than excite.

He is usually satisfied to stupefy, rob, and then leave his victim.

Phonny was put quite to a nonplus by this unexpected answer.

He wanted to nonplus and disconcert her, if such a thing were possible.

This reply seemed to nonplus us all with the exception of Maitland and Godin.

And down he sat at a nonplus, and very unhappy.

The adjurer appeared, for one moment, fairly at a nonplus.

Silus took the bottle of flummox and necked half the contents.

Li used her searing backhands to flummox Swiss tactician Hingis during the early stages.

How eukaryotes first evolved is a puzzle that continues to flummox scientists the world over.

To Edinburgh, which would daringly flummox the Scottish nationalists?

Football has found a way to flummox the most storied, most successful World Cup nation of all.

You dumbfound me, my friend; I can find no expression for my gratitude.

That, he assured his imperial brother, would amaze and dumbfound the entire universe more than anything else that could possibly be conceived.

Shock value counts for everything: You have to dumbfound your victims, traumatize them, make them too senseless to react, too passive to resist.

And what do you drink yourself then, to be able all alone by yourself to dumbfound and stupefy the city so with your clamour?

Each year it produces surprising and exceptional projects that are complex enough to dumbfound even the most experienced academics who contribute their time as judges.