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stay

/steɪ/ verbo C2

En español: asegurar con estayes, virar por avante

  1. To brace or support with a stay or stays · stay a mast
  2. To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays. (transitive)
  3. To tack; put on the other tack. (transitive) · to stay ship
  4. To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship. (intransitive)

He/she/it stays · Pasado stayed · Participio pasado stayed · Forma en -ing staying

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De la biblioteca

He was afraid for the minute, but it is impossible for a mongoose to stay frightened for any length of time, and though Rikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose’s business in life was to fight and eat snakes.
The Jungle Book, p. 68 · B2
At home among my friends I stay;
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 4 · C1
No, I’ve made up my mind about it; if I’m Mabel, I’ll stay down here!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 11 · B2
Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, “I do wish they _would_ put their heads down!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 11 · B2

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