verb
- Extend out or project in space.
- usage: "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"
- Be highly noticeable.
- Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
- usage: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
adjective
- Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary.
- usage: "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"
- synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking
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