stood

Definition

  • past tense and past participle of 'stand'

Examples

  • His plays have 'stood the test of time'. [=his plays are still read by many people today]

  • She was crouching down to look at something, but she 'stood up' when she saw me.

  • She finally 'stood up to' the girl who had been teasing her at school.

Movie quotes

  • (..) and he told me to write them back. And what did you say? "When we met in January, I expressed my doubts about the site. "Where it stood with graphics, how much programing was left "that I had not anticipated." "The lack of hardware we had to deal with site use, (..)
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