to stub
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5.2
- verb
- /stʌb/
:
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- As I rushed to the kitchen, I accidentally stubbed my toe against the table leg.
- stub your toe
I hope you get diarrhea and stub your toe really hard.
- I hope you get diarrhea and stub your toe really hard.
- Every time someone stubs their toe, they all feel the same pain.
- Someone else lost a son, someone else lost an arm, someone else stubbed their toe, and that's it.
- And affective empathy is really somebody stubs their toe and you say, oh, you feel their pain.
- And amazingly, he stubbed his toe on it and pulled up through this Peaky, boggy soil.
- See, normally when a Colombian stubs their toe or something, the reaction is Ijuebuta, which is basically son of a whore.
Examples
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Someone else lost a son, someone else lost an arm, someone else stubbed their toe, and that's it.
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If I stub my toe, I'm done for the day.
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-Oh, it's like when you stub a toe.
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Right, you know, these days they need therapy if they stub their toe.
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Every time someone stubs their toe, they all feel the same pain.
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David, on the move, stubs his toe on a chair.
Fiction book (1997) -
If you stub your toe, you can be like, "Ow, my frigging toe!"
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She stubs her toe and collapses, screaming.
Fiction book (2000) -
You're going to fall down, sprain ankles, stub your toes, get dirt on your face, and so forth.
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The ESPN College Gameday crew will be in Eugene as Oregon hosts Stanford on Saturday evening in a game that represents perhaps the best chance for Oregon to stub its toe and have its chances of an undefeated season ruined.
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Synonyms
937
1.0
To hit something by accident with a sudden movement
3
2.7
Hit something by accident when you move and touch it
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To replace a function in a program with a simple fake version for testing
Compounds
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stub (verb, to hit your toe) is easy to remember with a helpful image: think of your toe hitting a small stump on the floor, which explains why the word means a sudden, painful knock.