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outstand

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Definitions

  1. To remain unpaid, unresolved, or prominent.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • Like Solomon's fool, he outstands all reproof.
  • [T]he Elephas primigenius [woolly mammoth] and some of its associates which were able to outstand the inclemency of that severe period, wandered back over their ancient territory, […]
  • I have outstood my time, which is material / To the tender of our present.

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