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gainstays

gainstays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gainstay.

Meaning of gainstay

Verb

gainstay (third-person singular simple present gainstays, present participle gainstaying, simple past and past participle gainstayed)

  1. (transitive) To stand against or in opposition to; resist; oppose.
    • Among the diversity of opinions that are entertained in regard to physical resistance, there are but a few found to gainstay that stern delcaration.1983, Bill McAdoo, Pre-Civil War Black Nationalism
  2. (transitive) To deny (the right to); deprive (of).
    • … it was intended to be, a living fire of force in the world that cannot be gainstayed and which no storms can shake.1926, Theosophical Society (Madras, India), The Theosophist

Questions about gainstays

What is gainstays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gainstays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gainstay.

Words near gainstays in the dictionary

  1. gainstanding
  2. gainstands
  3. gainstay
  4. gainstayed
  5. gainstaying
  6. gainstays
  7. gainstood
  8. gainstrife
  9. gainstrive
  10. gainstrived
  11. gainstriven

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