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Outstand

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding. archaic, transitive

    "Like Solomon's fool, he outstands all reproof."

  2. 2
    To surpass in standing; stand or remain beyond; outstay. transitive

    "I have outstood my time, which is material / To the tender of our present."

  3. 3
    To project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent. intransitive

    "A lever connected to the cam outstands from the throat block, […]"

  4. 4
    To stand out to sea. archaic, intransitive
  5. 5
    To remain over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined. archaic, intransitive

    "The Judge gave a judgment against the whole boat's crew, I being one of the men, for $30,000. Of course, we did not feel like paying it. I did not; it was none of my fault, but I happened to belong to the same boat, and it outstands there now."

Etymology

From Middle English outstanden, utstanden, equivalent to out- + stand. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutstounde (“to bear, tolerate”), Dutch uitstaan (“to abide, suffer, dree”), German ausstehen (“to stand, endure, abide”), Swedish utstå (“to suffer, endure, pass through”).

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