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stem
Part of speech: NounThe principal stalk or trunk of a tree or plant; the slender stalk that bears the leaves, fruit, etc.; any slender support, handle, etc., resembling the stem of a plant; as, the stem of a goblet; the part of a vessel's structure to which the sides are fastened at the bow; the prow; the part of an inflected word that does not change.
Part of speech: VerbTo check; to make headway against; as, a boat stems the tide; to remove the stems from.
Part of speech: Past tenseStemmed.
Part of speech: Past participleStemming.
Usage examples "stem":- I love you enough for that; and if it turned out that- that you could not stem the tide, even with me to face it with you; and if the pity of it, the grief of it, killed me, I would take that chance- if you loved me through it all. - "The Fighting Chance", Robert W. Chambers.
- It was the broken top of a young tree, not quite torn from the parent stem, waving to and fro in the wind. - "'O Thou, My Austria!'", Ossip Schubin.
- You crow, I could break you like a pipe- stem. - "Parrot & Co.", Harold MacGrath.