withstand
/wɪðˈstænd/ verb C1- To resist or endure (something) successfully.
- To oppose (something) forcefully.
He/she/it withstands · Past withstood · Past participle withstood · -ing form withstanding
Verb forms
- Base form
- withstand
- He/she/it
- withstands
- Past
- withstood
- Past participle
- withstood
- -ing form
- withstanding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
Dorothy ran down and helped the Scarecrow to his feet, and the Lion came up to her, feeling rather bruised and sore, and said, “It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.”
“My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners--my behaviour to _you_ was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not.
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