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Word entry · 5 letters

stark

Best crossword clue

"Bare and plain"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /stɑɹk/Part of speech adverb, adjectiveSorted akrstStarts with SEnds with K1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. to the fullest degree

Word origin

From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyielding, obstinate, hard, strong, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”).

Used in a sentence

  • Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
  • a stark, moss-trooping Scot
  • His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.

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