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withstay en · VERB

Etymology

From with- (“back, against”) + stay.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To hold back; oppose; withstand.
   • Death, careful of my learning, hath withstayed His final presence. 1854, S. T. Dobell, Balder iii. 10:
   • It filled the passage of the rising glade, And there withstayed the sun in dazzling sheen. 1885, R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche iii. v. 29:
   • More interestingly the shock has sufficiently high temperatures that nuclear binding cannot withstay and matter is ejected as free protons and neutrons from the neutron star surface. 2008, Aldo Covello, Società italiana di fisica, Struttura Dei Nuclei Lontano Dalla Valle Di Stabilità:

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gainstay