to lodge
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5.0
- verb
- /lɑdʒ/
:
alojarse
- It could lodge under the skin and cause a bad infection.
Anxiety is simply when worrying starts to get lodged in your body.
- Anxiety is simply when worrying starts to get lodged in your body.
- And as we said before, some of these thoughts may be toxic and they may easily become lodged in your mind.
- One of our guys was actually on Skype with his wife and a piece went through his eye and lodged in the back of his head.
- And even though the bullet was lodged in his chest, this man said, don't hurt the guy that shot me.
- And so some, some of those narratives are so lodged in there and they're so core and fundamental that it's not about getting rid of them.
- So now they find themselves lodged in a state of unhappy paralysis.
- And then in the bottom draw looks like it's lodged.
- Emotions that can't be had lodge themselves in US and gum up our systems.
- You, you get, you get lodged in a certain moment in your life, in a certain moment in time.
Examples
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So now they find themselves lodged in a state of unhappy paralysis.
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There was a pain, too, like that of an abscessed tooth above his throat, back of his eyes, where tears lodge.
Fiction book (1990) -
And as we said before, some of these thoughts may be toxic and they may easily become lodged in your mind.
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Anxiety is simply when worrying starts to get lodged in your body.
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"The rhythm of disintegration" suddenly lodges itself in his brain.
Fiction book (1990) -
Just one of those phrases that suddenly lodges itself in your brain like a kernel of corn between your teeth.
Fiction book (1990) -
Grains of unburnt black powder were lodged in the soft white plastic.
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Nature commonly lodges her treasures and jewels in rocky ground.
Academic text (2000) -
Lipid release into the vascular system in this syndrome occurs, and as the fat globules lodge in the fine capillary network in the lungs, the patient becomes symptomatic.
Academic text (2005) -
A fish bone can lodge in your throat if you're not careful while eating.
Synonyms
752
3.4
To become fixed in one position and be hard to move
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4.8
Fix firmly inside another material so it becomes part of it
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4.7
To press something deeply into a surface
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4.9
To force something tightly into a narrow space
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3.0
Push something into another thing so it goes inside
To put something firmly into a material so it stays there
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Archaic
A traditional home used by some Native American groups like a tepee or wigwam
How Firm
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lodge meaning 'to become stuck' comes from the idea of putting something into a place so it stays there, like a stone that becomes firm in a shoe. So when something is lodged, it is fixed or stuck in one spot.