Word.ws English Dictionary

stick it out

stick it out verb: to persist or continue to the end.

Verb

stick it out (third-person singular simple present sticks it out, present participle sticking it out, simple past and past participle stuck it out)

  1. (informal) To persist or continue to the end.
    • Plenty of people begin the training, but few stick it out for the year or two necessary to become proficient.
    • A letter from the Stationmaster was issued to all the staff, thanking them for "sticking it out" through one of the most difficult periods ever experienced at Redhill. None of them will easily forget Christmas, 1957.1958 March, M. W. G. Skinner, “Christmas Fortnight at Redhill”, in Railway Magazine, page 169

stick it out meaning in Malayalam

stick it out in Malayalam

grin and bear it, put up with it, keep at it
വിടാതെ പിടിച്ചു നില്ക്കുക, സഹിക്കുക, കടിച്ചുപിടിച്ചു സഹിക്കുക, ക്ഷമയോടെ സഹിക്കുക, നിറുത്താതെ പ്രയത്നിച്ചു കൊണ്ടേയിരിക്കുക, ആഗ്രഹത്തോടെ വിടാതെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക

Forms of stick it out

third-person singular presentsticks it out
present participlesticking it out
past participlestuck it out
paststuck it out

Questions about stick it out

What does stick it out mean?
Stick it out means to persist or continue to the end.
What is stick it out in Malayalam?
Stick it out in Malayalam is വിടാതെ പിടിച്ചു നില്ക്കുക, സഹിക്കുക, കടിച്ചുപിടിച്ചു സഹിക്കുക. See Stick it out meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is stick it out?
Stick it out is a verb.
What is the past tense of stick it out?
The past tense of stick it out is stuck it out.

Words near stick it out in the dictionary

  1. stick in the mud
  2. stick in the muds
  3. stick insect
  4. stick insects
  5. stick it
  6. stick it out
  7. stick it to
  8. stick it to the man
  9. stick lac
  10. stick letter
  11. stick letters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stick it out (page history and authors); stick it out (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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: “stick it out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stick_it_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.