stuck

Modifying Another Word

• really: I'm REALLY stuck about which uni to go to later this year!
• still: Still stuck - see our looking for a gift page Looking to book next years holiday or a Ski Holiday for Christmas?

Modifies a noun

• pixel: I recently bought a DL2 at the nice Jessops price and have just noticed 2 hot or stuck pixels just off-centre of the frame.
• record: I am starting to feel like a stuck record.
• energy: With energy healing we can go back in time to release this stuck emotional energy.
• right: He's been getting stuck right in, it's like he's never been away.
• place: From this completely fixed, stuck place I tried to play.

Used with adjective complement

• get: To avoid getting stuck in traffic, please arrive by 7am.
• become: CPD is a useful antidote to becoming stuck in a rut of uncritical routines.
• feel: I don't want to carry on feeling stuck; I want to move on with you.
• remain: Yet without it the Center would have remained stuck in the era of pencil-and-paper, the card-index, and the typewriter.
• discover: As Sebastian became cleverer at the game, we found that it disappeared... to be discovered later stuck to the underside of his highchair!
• seem: Richard McConnel who recently learned the sit fly position with Louis seems stuck in it now.

Preposition: in

• jam: Cons: Only that in the past I have got stuck in traffic jams between the car park and the terminal building.
• traffic: To avoid getting stuck in traffic, please arrive by 7am.
• rut: CPD is a useful antidote to becoming stuck in a rut of uncritical routines.
• mud: As for the tanks well I have seen several that have been knocked out & some I have seen stuck in the mud.
• corner: Getting stuck in corners, hanging upside down on rails but still grinding them and other small hassles are still present.
• system: However, the application appears to have become stuck in the system.