Word.ws English Dictionary

staked out

staked out is the simple past and past participle of stake out.

Meaning of stake out

Verb

stake out (third-person singular simple present stakes out, present participle staking out, simple past and past participle staked out)

  1. (transitive) To watch a location or people, generally covertly.
  2. (transitive) To mark off the limits by stakes.
    • stake out land
  3. (intransitive, croquet) To end the game by hitting the stake peg in the middle of the court.

Questions about staked out

What is staked out the simple past and past participle of?
Staked out is the simple past and past participle of stake out.

Words near staked out in the dictionary

  1. stakebody
  2. stakebuilding
  3. staked
  4. staked a claim
  5. staked one's life
  6. staked out
  7. Staked Plain
  8. Staked Plains
  9. stakedriver
  10. stakedrivers
  11. Stakeford

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: staked out (page history and authors); stake out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “staked out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/staked_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.