withstay
English edit
Etymology edit
From with- (“back, against”) + stay.
Verb edit
withstay (third-person singular simple present withstays, present participle withstaying, simple past and past participle withstayed)
- (transitive) To hold back; oppose; withstand.
- 1854, S. T. Dobell, Balder iii. 10:
- Death, careful of my learning, hath withstayed His final presence.
- 1885, R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche iii. v. 29:
- It filled the passage of the rising glade, And there withstayed the sun in dazzling sheen.
- 2008, Aldo Covello, Società italiana di fisica, Struttura Dei Nuclei Lontano Dalla Valle Di Stabilità:
- More interestingly the shock has sufficiently high temperatures that nuclear binding cannot withstay and matter is ejected as free protons and neutrons from the neutron star surface.