STEEKS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

steeks

verb

present tense third-person singular of steek, chiefly Scottish

as in shuts

to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening Macleod threatened to steek the door in my face if I ever said a word against the Scots again

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Your middle schooler walks in, drops her backpack and shuts the bedroom door.

— Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026
There’s a brief pause, and then my phone goes haywire, inundated with Bluetooth signal spam — new Airpods connections, contact requests, an avalanche of popups that make my phone basically unusable until Hedge shuts it off.

— Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026

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Too much dependence on one shipping lane means that when a corridor closes, there may be no fallback.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
More than 90 people will be laid off this winter when a snack manufacturing facility in Catawba County closes its doors.

— Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2026

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