Verbs that start with S

Steal means to take something that doesn't belong to you, especially property that clearly belongs to someone else.

You stoke a fire when you put more fuel on it, to keep it burning.

You stop doing something when you don't do it anymore. You can also stop someone else from doing something, or stop an action and end it early. For example, "she brought a stop to the daily meetings". The opposite of stop is go or start.

You stretch something when you pull it so it becomes longer and thinner. When you do warm-up excercises you stretch the muscles in your body, so people call them stretching exercises. The girl in the picture is stretching some chewing gum.

You stroke something when you run your hand along it firmly in one direction. If you move it around in lots of different directions, you would be rubbing instead.