outstood
outstood is the simple past and past participle of outstand.
Meaning of outstand
Verb
outstand (third-person singular simple present outstands, present participle outstanding, simple past and past participle outstood)
- To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding.
- Like Solomon's fool, he outstands all reproof.1658, John Spencer, Thomas Fuller, “CCCXXVI.—A sinful man is a senseless man.”, in ΚΑΙΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΛΑΙΑ[:] Things New and Old; or A Storehouse of Similes, Sentences, Allegories, Apophthegms, Apologues...
- To surpass in standing; stand or remain beyond; outstay.
- I have outstood my time, which is material / To the tender of our present.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- To project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent.
- A lever connected to the cam outstands from the throat block, […]1971 August 17, Charles L. Welton, “Releasable Mooring Rope”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 889, number 3
- To stand out to sea.
- To remain over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined.
- 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.1883, Thomas J. Knight, “Testimony of Thomas J. Knight”, in Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Twenty-Fifth Session of the Legislature of the State of California, volume III...
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