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sticks in someone's throat

sticks in someone's throat is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stick in someone's throat.

Meaning of stick in someone's throat

Verb

stick in someone's throat (third-person singular simple present sticks in someone's throat, present participle sticking in someone's throat, simple past and past participle stuck in someone's throat)

  1. To be too difficult to speak.
    • In truth, it seems that the words 'I do not know' stick in every physician's throat.2012, Salvatore Mangione, Physical Diagnosis Secrets
  2. To cause an aching sensation in the throat as if something is stuck there.
    • His breath stuck in his throat.2008, Deeanne Gist, Deep in the Heart of Trouble, page 307
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, throat.
    • I took so many of them, felt them stick in my throat and I swallowed and swallowed to get them down, and I sat with that bottle and chanted, more, more, more, and then the bottle was nearly empty and I thought suddenly, Wait, I don't want to die2002, Catherine Coulter, Hemlock Bay

Questions about sticks in someone's throat

What is sticks in someone's throat the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sticks in someone's throat is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stick in someone's throat.

Words near sticks in someone's throat in the dictionary

  1. sticks in a bundle can't be broken
  2. sticks in a bundle cannot be broken
  3. sticks in one's gizzard
  4. sticks in someone's craw
  5. sticks in someone's gullet
  6. sticks in someone's throat
  7. sticks in the mud
  8. sticks it out
  9. sticks it to
  10. sticks it to the man
  11. sticks like shit

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