Staking

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of stabbing with a stake.

    "Despite the quick, clean “dustings” shown on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the bloody stakings in so many vampire films, the stake was not a weapon used to actually destroy a vampire but a tool in a more elaborate exorcism."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of stake form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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gamblingplayplayingspeculationsporting

Example

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"China is staking its claim to the South China Sea."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From stake + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stakyng, staking, from Old English stacung (“staking”), from Old English *stacian (“to drive stakes”), equivalent to stake + -ing.

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